“History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.”

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.

That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.

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.

You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

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.’

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.

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.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.

System that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, “leur impose”, Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.

It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods.

You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle.

Clearly understand that the only limitations you will ever have are the limitations you impose upon yourself. You truly do have infinite potential.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.