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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Ron Paul

Stichwörter: political

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

Stichwörter: dissent political civil-disobedience

In Venezuela Chavez has made the co-ops a top political priority, giving them first refusal on government contracts and offering them economic incentives to trade with one another. By 2006, there were roughly 100,000 co-operatives in the country, employing more than 700,000 workers. Many are pieces of state infrastructure – toll booths, highway maintenance, health clinics – handed over to the communities to run. It’s a reverse of the logic of government outsourcing – rather than auctioning off pieces of the state to large corporations and losing democratic control, the people who use the resources are given the power to manage them, creating, at least in theory, both jobs and more responsive public services. Chavez’s many critics have derided these initiatives as handouts and unfair subsidies, of course. Yet in an era when Halliburton treats the U.S. government as its personal ATM for six years, withdraws upward of $20 billion in Iraq contracts alone, refuses to hire local workers either on the Gulf coast or in Iraq, then expresses its gratitude to U.S. taxpayers by moving its corporate headquarters to Dubai (with all the attendant tax and legal benefits), Chavez’s direct subsidies to regular people look significantly less radical.

Naomi Klein

Stichwörter: usa venezuela taxes political chávez leftism subsidies

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us."
Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York after WWI

Alfred E. Smith

Stichwörter: political

History teaches us
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives."
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Abba Eban

Stichwörter: political

To the union of all honest men.

Aaron Burr

Stichwörter: lie political controversial