So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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