Akbar Ganji Quotes, Issues Quotes, Ideas Quotes

Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Issues Quotes , Principles Quotes

I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.

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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

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Tags : Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Issues Quotes

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

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Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Men Quotes , Issues Quotes

The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money intrinsic value that may come into use.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mean Quotes , Issues Quotes

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.

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Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Issues Quotes , Freedom Of Speech Quotes

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Issues Quotes

When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's being tapped into; a suspicion on globalization, a desire to reign in it's excesses, a suspicion of elites and governing institutions that people feel may not be responsive to their immediate needs. And that sometimes gets wrapped up in issues of ethnic identify or religious identity or cultural identity, and that can be a volatile mix.

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There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

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Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of worship, or whether we should eat beef and eschew pork or the other way around, all the way to the most central issues, such as whether there are no gods, one God, or many gods.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Religious Quotes , Issues Quotes

The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, "This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it." Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, "Gay discrimination is wrong."

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The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits

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My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

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