Quotes About Annexation

#1. The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

Angela Merkel

#2. As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is then removed from the marketplace and the school, later from other domains of public life. The state will not toerlate any gods besides itself.

Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

#3. I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.

James Buchan

#5. In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation - the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially - hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.

Friedrich Engels

#6. Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

Jeff Hawkins

#7. The Russian contribution to peace in Ukraine is not sufficient. [German Chancellor commenting on 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea]

Angela Merkel

#8. The revolution of 1893 and the annexation that followed undermined a culture and ended the life of a nation. Compared to what such operations have brought to other countries, though, this one ended well.

Stephen Kinzer

#9. But the obsessional work of cutting and pasting also enacts, in the most literal way possible, the generic annexation of the poetic by the novelistic. When

Ann Radcliffe

#10. Everything about the man screamed danger, so, of course, I was drawn to him like a moth to a flame. Confidence radiated off of him in waves. I was immediately reminded of how you could tell a man made love by the way he danced.

Lora Ann

#11. Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#12. The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

Martin Scorsese

#13. A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

Eric Maisel

#14. An hour without you Is like ages but a minute with you is like my life lived for once and all

Shobhit Agarwal

#15. I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.

Noomi Rapace