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The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared
No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.
No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.
I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.
Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.
The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding.
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.
The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.
The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.
If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.
Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.
Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.
Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.
Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.
Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.
America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.
Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.
Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.
In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism.
Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.
Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.
State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.
Overall state control with foreign participation is as good as you are going to get in South America at this moment.
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.
Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.