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So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest…
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue,…
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
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Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of…
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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
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No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part…
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There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the…
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Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of…
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
— Edmund Burke
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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
— Carlo Goldoni
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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of…
— Winston Churchill
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If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba,…
— Noam Chomsky
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Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all…
— Thomas Merton
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I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on…
— Hugo Grotius
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Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood…
— Muqtada al Sadr
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear,…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging…
— James Madison
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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of…
— Winston Churchill
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