"Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country."

Politics, Freedom, Law, Society, Justice

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"Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country."

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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."

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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

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"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

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"Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts."

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"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."

Power

"In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss."

History

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."

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"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."

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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Act

"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations."

Nature

"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

Fight

"I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important."

Time

"I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in."

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