Quotes with convention

  • Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
  • One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

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  • Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Andrew Vachss A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Murray Kempton A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
    Murray Kempton
    American journalist
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  • Adlai Stevenson II After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Carol Bellamy By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Alan Parsons Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Bill Shuster However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory - horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene - and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Mary McCarthy It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Alcee Hastings Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
    Speech Republican National Convention 2004
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Carol Bellamy The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Tom Stoppard The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Northrop Frye The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • A. J. Liebling There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously. It is the story you must take that way.... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Carol Bellamy Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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