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Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to…
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been…
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they…
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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be…
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All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of…
— David Horowitz
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The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of…
— Bertrand Russell
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Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through…
— Frederick Douglass
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The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.…
— Ezra Heywood
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All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the…
— Fisher Ames
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Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the…
— James Madison
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Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is…
— James Buchan
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The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms.
— Bertrand Russell
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