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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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