For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
“For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.”
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
“For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.”
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“For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.”
“Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.”
“The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.”
“International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.”
“The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.”
“Political consequences have never really come into my thinking. I didn't think about it when we made 'Maurice' or when I said first I would co-direct and then write the screenplay of 'Call Me'. I was just making something I thought I would enjoy creating.”
“When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.”
“History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.”
“Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.”
“The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.”
“If I have to take the consequences to express my opinion, to express my feelings, to stand up for what I believe in, then that's something that I have to do.”