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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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