Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Quotes

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

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• The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Justice

• We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Fight

• Democracy is the road to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Democracy
  • Road
  • Socialism

• Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Peace
  • Better
  • Nothing

• Peace is its own reward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Peace
  • Own
  • Reward

• Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • You
  • Justice
  • Role

• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Family
  • Home
  • Peace

• I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Work
  • History
  • Peace

• The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Environment

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Home
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Men
  • Mind

• For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them a chance to seek justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Trying
  • Justice
  • Chance

• The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Rock
  • Democracy
  • Moment

• After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, 'Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!' And then Sasha added, 'Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up.' So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It’s about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don’t exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Reality
  • Peace
  • Empathy

• We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • War

• Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

  

  Charles Francis Richter
  • World
  • Great
  • Justice

• I tell you what: I give you all of my strength - I seal it inside a little green envelope and mail it to you with hope and peace and much much love. Take all you need and take it quickly.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Hope
  • Peace
  • Green

• I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Good
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• When I speak to a victim or their family, people who were left bruised and battered by someone, and can give them some small relief, I know I'm winning in some small way, and I'm part of a process that sometimes works.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • People
  • Family
  • Small

• Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Future
  • Professional
  • Development

• Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

  

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Democracy