
Top 21 Quotes About Collective Security
#1. There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.
Winston Churchill
#2. We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#3. The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene ... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.
Elliott Abrams
#4. Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
Elliott Abrams
#5. Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.
William Safire
#6. Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#7. Collective security had a fine sound, but it was still little more than a word; it would still be the United States, and the United States alone, that held the far frontier. No one else had the will or the power.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#8. Europe needs a clear and more collective and cohesive policy on security and energy supply. Today the issue of security of energy supply is only really considered at a national member-state level, but in reality we need a much greater European-wide approach on this issue.
Andris Piebalgs
#10. The burden of keeping the world, every corner of it, safe is one that has to be evenly shared ... This is especially more so for the interconnectivity of the global system in our generation.
Ray Anyasi
#11. Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.
Nelson Mandela
#12. If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.
John Barrowman
#13. It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.
Ron Lewis
#14. It is clear that both at home and abroad producers have been unwilling to trust their fortunes entirely to the unrestricted play of competition. Both in world and domestic markets businessmen have sought security by substituting collective controls for the free play of market forces.
George W. Stocking
#15. If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#16. Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.
Kelly Thompson
#17. If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
Timothy Noah
#18. We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.
Hunter Tylo
#19. Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.
Anthony Carmona
#20. Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.
Javier Solana
#21. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
Eckhart Tolle
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