"There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America."

Absence, America, Court, states

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"There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America."

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"It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state."

William H. Seward, American Statesman

Absence, Law, Slavery, State

"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."

Willa Cather, American Author

Absence, Country

"In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway."

Tucker Carlson, American Journalist

Absence, Superstition, Theory

"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."

Derek Bailey, English Musician

Absence, Play

"Judicious absence is a weapon."

Charles Reade, English Novelist

Absence,

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."

Alan Greenspan, American Economist

Absence, Gold, Inflation, Value

"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

Absence, Liberty, Responsibility, Restraint

"It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation."

Jack Schwartz, American Scientist

Absence, Democracy, Nation

"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State."

Patrick J. Kennedy, American Politician

Absence, Children, Parents

"Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Absence, Loss, Memory, Grief

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"A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work."

Work

"The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay."

Work

"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."

World

"Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living."

Life

"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either."

God

"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years."

Love

"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."

Man

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."

War

"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal."

War

"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world."

Attitude