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“Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.”

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Amartya Sen is an Indian economist renowned for his contributions to welfare economics, development economics, and ethics. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979 and is considered one of the most outstanding economists of the 20th century. more

“Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the semen stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males, which they then use to inseminate one another using turkey basters in order to create a legion of demon babies. Well, that's only part of it. We are also active in community outreach programs.”

People Thinking Wells Use Order Community Baby Program Dancing Males Active Forests Naked Celebrate Demon Witch Stolen Turkeys Witchcraft Legion Outreach

Author:Amy Sedaris

“I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Grows Fantasy Growing Up Grew Safe Grew Up Neighbor Valleys

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.”

Shows Television Wind Hair Shots Insane Television Shows Wind Blowing

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and theories, with maximum publicity of ultimate and intermediate goals, and with a consistency of principles.”

Facts Spirit Goal Views Principles Theory Ultimate Democratic Affair International Fearless Consistency Maximum Publicity Methodology Weighing International Affairs

Book:Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom

Source: Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom

“Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.”

“It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.”

War Facts President Opinion Technique Criminals Torture Interrogation Interrogation Techniques

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.”

Giving Mean War Use President Failing Argument Chaos Disorder Prolonging

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.”

Knows Firsts Humans Political Order Religious One Thing Produce Torture Working It Confession Human History Accuracy Dissidents

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.”

“When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.”

Long Christian Christianity Crosses Imposing Fuse

Author:Andrew Sullivan

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