Timothy Garton Ash Quotes

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• That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with…
• A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
• But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.
• Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on…
• Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to…
• I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.
• Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude…
• To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.
• After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates -…
• The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
• One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days,…
• Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.
• I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria,…
• No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated…

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