“To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.” PeopleIfsMindStatesGovernmentEconomyDemocracySubjectsSolutionsInstitutionsDemocraticInternationalDemocratic Government Author:George Soros
“My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.” TwoWholeJobsTeachEconomicSubjectsTheoryMassEconomicsInternationalUnemploymentEconomic TheoryCorpus Author:James Meade
“On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” KnowsProblemSocialPsychologySubjectsUnderstoodGoldInternationalContraryPhysicsWeatherFinanceTransfersNobody KnowsSocial Problems Author:Richard P. Feynman
“It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.” GivingWellsMayWarNationsCausesPartyPayPrinciplesSubjectsCitizensPropertyInternationalRefuseDebtCodeSufficientNeglectBelongingCauses Of War Book:Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life Source: Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life
“It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or for raw materials, international friction would be reduced. This would merely put a contest of force in the place of what can only metaphorically be called the "struggle" of competition and would transfer to powerful and armed states, subject to no superior law, the rivalries which between individuals had to be decided without recourse to force.” StatesWould BeLawIndividualForcePowerfulStruggleGroupsSubjectsMaterialsIllusionDecidedCompetitionInternationalSuperiorsOrganizedContestsNegotiationTransfersRivalryRaw MaterialsFrictionRecourseRoad To Serfdom Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Iran will for sure have pledged to the international community that it will not develop a nuclear weapon, and now will be subject to an additional protocol, a more vigorous inspection and monitoring regime that lasts in perpetuity.” LastsCommunitySubjectsWeaponsInternationalNuclearIranRegimesNuclear WeaponsVigorousInternational CommunityProtocolInspectionMonitoring Author:Barack Obama
“A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.” IfsMenDoeStatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesSubjectsCitizensHonorMoralityProtectStandardsConscienceRelationInjusticeInternationalEnlightenedGrossInternational RelationsWritten WordLiabilityHigh StandardsBreachUnwritten Author:Grover Cleveland
“Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an international summit to debate one of the most controversial subjects in modern science , editing human DNA.” WorldHumansModernSubjectsScientistMeetingsInternationalDebateAround The WorldEditingDnaGatheringHistoricSummitControversialAttendingModern Science Author:Linda Wertheimer