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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision…
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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
— Roger Scruton
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Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere…
— Pope John XXIII
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Building Union among people not cooperation between states
— Jean Monnet
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Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations…
— Wesley Clark
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What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.
— Pim Fortuyn
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
— Fatos Nano
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Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
— Omar Bongo
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Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has…
— Atifete Jahjaga
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states;…
— Haile Selassie
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