Sparks: Full suspension of trade relations with Israel requires EU unanimity

All I know is what I read in the papers, and it appears that when money talks, unanimity walks.

A committee of gentlemen in fine waistcoats solemnly agrees that a single pocketbook must veto the conscience of millions.

Observing that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, I note this particular chain was designed with a single, unbreakable one.

The cold arithmetic of a single veto outweighs the warm blood of any number of principles.

A hypothesis that requires perfect consensus for action is a hypothesis designed to produce no result.

Designing a mechanism that grants a single power absolute veto is designing a mechanism for paralysis.

One must wager on the unity of twenty-seven hearts, a bet no rational man would make.

This unity depends entirely on its own impossibility, a design empty of all function.

Before we tear down the fence of unanimity, we should ask what chaos it was built to contain.

The diplomatic drawing-room achieves a perfect stillness, preserved by the simple expedient of allowing the wolf to hold the key.

They call it a union, which is a very good name for a club where every member has a right to lock the door.

Those who preach the patience of procedure are never those who suffer from its infinite delay.

'Unanimity' is the word they use for the perpetual motion machine that generates nothing but its own necessity.