Anthony Eden... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that.
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The phrase “you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does” is used when those who criticize the actions of another country are not in a good position to understand the situation. This is because those who criticize another country do not suffer from the same hardships that the people of that country go through. Rather, those who criticize other countries do so from a position of comfort and often with little knowledge or understanding of the situation itself. The statement “you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does” is used as a way of letting those who criticize other countries know that they should not be criticizing them if they have never personally experienced the horrors that they are criticizing.
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