"Political leaders still think things can be done……" — Mikhail Gorbachev
"Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight."
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world…
— James Buchan
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Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a…
— George Whitefield
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But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented…
— Ronald Reagan
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A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have…
— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while…
— Erich Fromm
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Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic.…
— King Hussein I
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Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.
— Pablo Antonio Cuadra
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Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by…
— George F. Kennan
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On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On…
— Raymond Williams
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Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the…
— Larry Elder
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