Parliament Quotes
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If the Canadian parliament, say, should declare that in light of evolving social mores, triangles should be regarded as sometimes having four sides, and decree also that anyone who expresses disagreement with this judgment shall be deemed guilty of discriminatory hate speech against four-sided triangles, none of this would change the geometrical facts in the least, but merely cast doubt on the sanity of Canadian parliamentarians.
Edward Feser
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You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.
Anjem Choudary
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Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
Norman Tebbit
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Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
Thomas Carlyle
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In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.
Bella Abzug
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Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
Bernard Bailyn
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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen
may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
George Bernard Shaw
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I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
Tony Blair
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams - I would make one group which would be a combination of, say, Parliament and Kraftwerk - put those two together and say, "Make a record." Something that would be an extraordinary combination: the weird physical feeling of Parliament with this strange, rigid stuff over the top of it.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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I believe Tunisia and Egypt should look to Turkey and see what not to do. Turkey seems to be a secular and democratic country but it is only a show. We are losing the effectiveness of democratic institutions like parliament and judiciary. They now are turning into tools for the benefit of a president-ordering system. A democratic government is possible only on a comprehensive democratic base surrounded by the participatory action of ordinary people.
Burhan Sonmez
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A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
Evan Davis
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To the South African parliament: I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.
Helen Suzman
