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| If the current crisis turns into a depression, what rough beasts might start slouching toward Moscow, Karachi, Beijing, or New Delhi to be born? | |
| This could lead to a third world war, from which no one will emerge victorious. … When nuclear pollution infects the whole planet, we will all be losers. | |
| History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions. Prior to the final economic collapse… | |
| [I]f one believes in freedom as a supreme value and proper ordering principle … then every invasion of freedom must be emphatically identified and resisted with undying spirit. | |
| AIDS and ebola … are just a small example of recently emerging plagues with no known cure or vaccine. Can we imagine 100s of such plagues? HUMAN EXTINCTION IS NOW POSSIBLE. | |
| Brick by brick, stone by stone, the prison of individual, institutional, and cultural racism can be destroyed. | |
| U.S. leadership would help preclude the rise of another hostile global rival, enabling the United States and the world to avoid another global cold or hot war… | |
| Economies of evaluation necessarily require calculability. … There is nothing abstract about this: the declension of economies of value leads to the zero point of the holocaust. | |
| The successful president … gets into the ring with the Congressional lions and tigers, cracks the whip, and … they ... get up on their tiny little stools and perform. | |
| American federalism in the end is not a trivial matter or a quaint historical anachronism. American-style federalism is a thriving and vital institutional arrangement… | |
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| The high-intensity scenario postulates a … full-scale war between the US and China. … Conflict on such a scale would … raise the possibility of a nuclear war. | |
| Let the world economy crash far enough, and the rules change. We stop playing 'The Price is Right' and start up a new round of 'Saving Private Ryan.' | |
| What if the global economy stagnates – or even shrinks? In that case, we will face a new period of international conflict… | |
| To employ a mathematician's analogy, … although the risk of extinction may be fractional, the stake is…infinite…and a fraction of infinity is still infinity. | |
| Analysis of policy choices matters very little if the mechanism for implementing those choices is poorly understood. | |
| Unless nuclear proliferation is stopped, we are headed toward a world that will mirror the American Wild West of the late 1800s. | |
| Dehumanization is nuclear war, environmental apocalypse, and international genocide. When people become things, they become dispensable. | |
| Theoretically, each new animal or plant extinction, with all its dimly perceived and intertwined affects, could cause total ecosystem collapse and human extinction. | |
| If humanity avoided a nuclear war only to survive as ... clever animals, … we would exist in a state of ontological damnation: hell on earth, masquerading as material paradise. | |
| [I]f the price of survival is human degradation, then there is no moral reason why an effort should be made to ensure that survival. | |
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