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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."

"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."

"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"

"The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution."

"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."

"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."
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"It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters."


"The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether."


"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one."


"One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."


"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."


"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."


"It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country."


"As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own."
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