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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

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In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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Facts May Prepared
But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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Democratic Freedom Mean Political Social System Today
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
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Baptists Culture Religious
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Facts Ideas Life Static
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Country People War
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Journalism Libel Mistakes
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War
I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Out Rivers Sacrifice Work
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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Mind Police Tracking War

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

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