If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.
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I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.
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No one chooses his or her country of birth, so it's foolish to be proud of it.
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Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races.
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified.
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There is now a worrying fusion of information and entertainment.
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People are ultimately divided more by class than by nationality.
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Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment.
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Because corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily protect the environment, they require regulation.
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From each according to his ability, to each according to his need is a fundamentally good idea.
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It's a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a bottled, branded consumer product.
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Land shouldn't be a commodity to be bought and sold.
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It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society.
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Protectionism is sometimes necessary in trade.
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The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders.
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The rich are too highly taxed.
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Those with the ability to pay should have the right to higher standards of medical care .
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Governments should penalise businesses that mislead the public.
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A genuine free market requires restrictions on the ability of predator multinationals to create monopolies.
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The freer the market, the freer the people.
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Abortion, when the woman's life is not threatened, should always be illegal.
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All authority should be questioned.
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An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
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Taxpayers should not be expected to prop up any theatres or museums that cannot survive on a commercial basis.
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Schools should not make classroom attendance compulsory.
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All people have their rights, but it is better for all of us that different sorts of people should keep to their own kind.
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Good parents sometimes have to spank their children.
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It's natural for children to keep some secrets from their parents.
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Marijuana should be legalised.
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The prime function of schooling should be to equip the future generation to find jobs.
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People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce.
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The most important thing for children to learn is to accept discipline.
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There are no savage and civilised peoples; there are only different cultures.
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Those who are able to work, and refuse the opportunity, should not expect society's support.
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When you are troubled, it's better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.
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First-generation immigrants can never be fully integrated within their new country.
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What's good for the most successful corporations is always, ultimately, good for all of us.
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No broadcasting institution, however independent its content, should receive public funding.
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Our civil liberties are being excessively curbed in the name of counter-terrorism.
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A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.
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Although the electronic age makes official surveillance easier, only wrongdoers need to be worried.
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The death penalty should be an option for the most serious crimes.
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In a civilised society, one must always have people above to be obeyed and people below to be commanded.
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Abstract art that doesn't represent anything shouldn't be considered art at all.
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In criminal justice, punishment should be more important than rehabilitation.
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It is a waste of time to try to rehabilitate some criminals.
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The businessman and the manufacturer are more important than the writer and the artist.
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Mothers may have careers, but their first duty is to be homemakers.
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Multinational companies are unethically exploiting the plant genetic resources of developing countries.
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Making peace with the establishment is an important aspect of maturity.
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Astrology accurately explains many things.
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You cannot be moral without being religious.
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Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged.
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Some people are naturally unlucky.
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I would not wish to send my child to a school that did not instill religious values.
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Sex outside marriage is usually immoral.
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A same sex couple in a stable, loving relationship, should not be excluded from the possibility of child adoption.
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Pornography, depicting consenting adults, should be legal for the adult population.
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What goes on in a private bedroom between consenting adults is no business of the state.
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No one can feel naturally homosexual.
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It's fine for society to be open about sex, but these days it's going too far.
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This little wrap-up quiz offers some important facts that were barely, if ever, reported. It may raise your eyebrows and adjust the pedestals on which you placed some of your favourite icons. The chasm may be greater than you'd imagined.
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Who said Democracy is fine so long as people think the right thoughts ?
Pope John Paul II Ralph Nader Paul Wolfowitz George Orwell
Pope John Paul II , in the 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae
Who signed legislation permitting doctors to remove the life support system of patients in a persistent vegetative state, regardless of the wishes of the family ?
George W.Bush Ronald Reagan Jesse Helms Jeb Bush
George W.Bush, as Governor of Texas in 1999
Who (1) worked for Senator McCarthy during his red witch hunts and (2) permitted J.Edgar Hoover to wiretap Martin Luther King ?
J.K. Galbraith Robert Kennedy George McGovern Ted Kennedy
Robert Kennedy (1) as McCarthy's Junior Counsel and (2) as Attorney General
These so-called ill-treatments and torturing in concentration camps, stories of which were spread everywhere amongst the people, and particularly by detainees who were liberated by the occupying armies, were not, as assumed, inflicted methodically, but by individual leaders, sub-leaders , and men who laid violent hands on them. Who made that statement ?
John Ashcroft, referring to Abu Graib Donald Rumsfeld, referring to Guantanamo Bay Rudolf Höss, referring to Auschwitz Emperor Hirohito, referring to Manchuria
Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz until 1943, in his post-war testimony
Who proposed thatWhosoever shall be guilty of rape, polygamy, or sodomy with a man or woman, shall be punished; if a man, by castration, a woman, by boring through the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch in diameter at the least ?
Oliver Cromwell Thomas Jefferson Mao Tse Tung Christopher Columbus
Thomas Jefferson, in the Virginia Bill number 64, 18 June 1779
Who held that spiritual characteristics are tied to skin colour and that non-white skin colour is a sign of spiritual defects that would be expunged in a future race war ?
Rudolf Hess Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Valentino Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Steiner, in a lecture to an anthroposophist audience in Stuttgart, 1915 The lecture is in Die geistigen Hintergründe des Ersten Weltkrieges, Dornach 1974 pp30-54
Who saidShort of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war ?
Henry Kissinger Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon Real Peace 1983
Who wrote in 1928 thatIt may be shrewdly forecast that no man will exhibit dimensions of permanent greatness equal to Mussolini ?
The Vatican Ambassador to Germany The US Ambassador to Italy The Soviet Union Ambassador to the League of Nations The UK Ambassador to Italy
US Ambassador to Italy, Richard Washburn Child, in his preface to Mussolini's autobiography
Immediately following the German invasion of the USSR, which future US President said the following ?If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way we let them kill as many as possible.
Harry Truman Richard Nixon Jimmy Carter John Kennedy
Harry Truman, 1941
Who said Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and are not clothed ?
Arnold Schwarzenegger Dwight D.Eisenhower John Major Jimmy Carter
President Dwight D.Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
Who said I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature.....Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion?To make half the world fools and half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the world. ?
Hillary Clinton Thomas Edison Charles de Gaulle Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Who said Japan was already defeated ... dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary. I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was no longer necessary to save American lives ?
General Patton General Eisenhower General MacArthur Charles Lindberg
General Dwight D.Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and later US President.
Who accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle - the highest medal that Nazi Germany could bestow on foreigners - in July 1938, four months after the German annexation of Austria ?
J. D. Rockefeller Henry Ford King Haakon VII of Norway Marlene Dietrich
Henry Ford. (The following month a senior executive of General Motors, James Mooney, received a similar medal for his "distinguished services to the Reich".)
With reference to Tiger Woods' first Golf Masters win, who said there'll be a spectacular increase in the number of black boys (and I do mean boys - teenagers) who begin to infest the public courses in America ?
O. J. Simpson Alistair Cooke Mel Gibson Naomi Klein
Alistair Cooke in his BBC Letter from America, May 2, 1997
Who presented Chairman Mao Tse Tung with a bouquet of poems that lavishly praised the Chinese leader as the timely rain to nourish the land ?
Nancy Reagan The Dalai Lama Pope John XXIII Robert Frost
The Dalai Lama, on his first meeting with Mao in Beijing (then Peking) in 1954
Who blocked the marriage of his son and disowned him, commenting How can I, who has always advocated renunciation of sex, encourage you to gratify it ? (The son subsequently became a homeless alcoholic.)
Gautama Buddha Martin Luther King Albert Schweitzer Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi, dealing with his son Harilal.
Which founding father said of the proposed American Constitution This is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism ... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other ?
Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton Thomas Paine George Washington
Benjamin Franklin in a speech to delegates to the US Constitutional Convention prior to the final vote.
Who said The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did. ?
Margaret Thatcher Milton Friedman Ludwig von Mises Friedrich Hayek
Milton Friedman in Financial Times (UK) June 7, 2003
Who said of Saddam Hussein He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours ?
Colin Powell Donald Rumsfeld Dick Cheney Bill Clinton
Colin Powell in February 2001
Who said of containment against Saddam Hussein We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt ?
Richard Perle John Bolton Paul Wolfovitz Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice in July 2001
Who said : I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed ?
Winston Churchill Albert Einstein Mahatma Gandhi George Orwell
Mahatma Gandhi, May 1940
Who said : I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes ... to spread a lively terror ?
Albert Schweizer Winston Churchill Princess Diana Ché Guevara
Winston Churchill, writing as President of the Air Council, in 1919
Who granted several audiences to, and received a donation of more than $1 million from Shoko Asahara, leader of the Supreme Truth cult of Japan, and spreader of sarin gas in the Tokyo subway ?
The Dalai Lama Pope John Paul II George Carey, as Archbishop of Canterbury Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The Dalai Lama, in 1982
Which politician travelled to Indonesia and received a $10 million donation from dictator Suharto to help party funds, while avoiding criticism of Indonesia's repressive policies, including political imprisonment ?
Margaret Thatcher Fidel Castro Nelson Mandela Tony Blair
Nelson Mandela, in October 1990, six months after his own release from prison
Who warned of the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the US military-industrial complex and its potential to endanger liberties and the democratic processes ?
General Alexander Haig President, General Dwight Eisenhower Nelson Rockefeller J. Edgar Hoover
President Eisenhower, in his Final Address to the Nation, January 17, 1961
With reference to World War One, who said : If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as admirable (as Hitler) to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations ?
General Montgomery Winston Churchill King George VI Bertrand Russell
Winston Churchill, in his Great Contemporaries, 1937
Who was an enthusiastic and uncritical guest of the dictatorships of Haiti and Albania, and the phalangists in Lebanon ?
Jane Fonda Mother Teresa of Calcutta Princess Diana The Dalai Lama
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Who referred to the Munich chapter of the German Communist Party as chaotic, filthy and full of Jews ?
Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII Cassius Clay, later Mohammed Ali Michael Ramsay, later Archbishop of Canterbury
Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII
With reference to the US conquest and annexation of a third of Mexico, who said : What has miserable, inefficient Mexico to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race ?
Walt Whitman Mark Twain Henry Thoreau Edgar Allen Poe
Walt Whitman
Who urged suspicious attention to any proposed new law or regulation that comes from businessmen, because they have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public ?
Henry Ford Bill Gates Adam Smith Milton Friedman
Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations
Who wrote of God: He says naïvely, outspokenly and without suggestion of embarrassment "I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God."It is only another way of saying "I, the Lord thy God, am a small God; fretful about small things" ?
Billy Graham General Patton Mark Twain Jerry Springer
Mark Twain, in Letters from the Earth
Who declared homosexuality to be immoral and disgusting ?
Emma Goldman Germaine Greer Eleanor Roosevelt Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand, at her Ford Hall appearance, 1971
Who said this ?
To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability.
Tony Blair George Bush Snr Henry Kissinger Charlton Heston
George Bush Snr, in A World Transformed, 1998
Who paid an official visit to China, described Beijing as ghastly and warned a group of foreign students If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed ?
Ronald Reagan The Duke of Edinburgh Jacques Chirac Richard Branson
The Duke of Edinburgh, 1986
Who demonised Jews and urged the destruction of their synagogues and houses, the seizing of their valuables and the denial of their prayer books and passports ?
Martin Luther Thomas Paine St. Francis Oliver Cromwell
Martin Luther, in his 1543 pamphlet Concerning the Jews and their Lies
Who said The word and working of God is quite clear; that women were made to be either wives or prostitutes ?
John Calvin Pope John XIII Martin Luther Lao Tse
Martin Luther
Who expressed humanitarian abhorrence of the death penalty, declaring that to kill a man in a paroxysm of passion is understandable, but to have him killed by someone else after calm and serious meditation and on the pretext of duty honourably discharged is incomprehensible ?
Ivan the Terrible The Marquis deSade Rasputin Benito Mussolini
The Marquis deSade
Who, commenting on World War Two, said: The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs ?
Mahatma Gandhi Leonard Cohen Nelson Mandela John Lennon
Mahatma Gandhi, on absolute non-violence, speaking to biographer Louis Fisher in June 1946.
Which country elected a World War II fascist war criminal (Class A) as a peacetime leader ?
Germany Japan Italy Croatia
Japan: Tojo cabinet minister Nobusuke Kishi became Prime Minister in 1957, eight years after his release from prison.
Who described Benito Mussolini as that admirable Italian gentleman ?
Franklin D. Roosevelt Ernest Hemmingway Dorothy Parker Humphrey Bogart
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933
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