Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the ‚crimes against the peace‘ for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.

Evil is whatever distracts.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‚not complex or complicated; sincere.‘