Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every...
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Philip Pullman
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Leo Tolstoy
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
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Cassandra Clare
The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.
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Rachel Vincent
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Viktor E. Frankl
More Quotes By Samantha Power
The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,
Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.
I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.
