The International Court of Justice (a.k.a. World Court) is the judicial branch of the United Nations and in the early 1990's a campaign started and it was supported by civil society non-governmental groups around the world.
John BurroughsWhen I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ยดthere is no godยด.
John BurroughsThere is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
John BurroughsHow many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.
John Burroughs