(415 quotes found)
“Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.”
Chanakya
“Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.”
Colin Powell
“After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith, and that also applies to the liturgy. It is not "manufactured" by the authorities. Even the pope can only be a humble servant of its lawful development and abiding integrity and identity. . . . The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition. . . . The greatness of the liturgy depends - we shall have to repeat this frequently - on its unspontaneity.”
Pope Benedict XVI
“The Saddam regime was sustained by illegal smuggling that amounted to some $11 billion. The U.N. Security Council , including the U.S. and Britain, did very little to stop that.”
Carne Ross
“In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.”
Mason Cooley
“But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.”
Bible
“In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?”
French Proverb
“Good council has no price.”
Giuseppe Mazzini
“This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, ... I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.”
Bob Knight
