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| bcec2b3 | What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people. | rebellion freedom autonomy liberty laws | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 8f3d166 | If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable. | morality autonomy bahrain kurdistan royalty statehood kurdish-people iraq iraq-war | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 293b9dd | "What difference does it make whether you slay him or Horus slays him? He will be just as dead either way." Wakim pauses, apparently considering the matter, as if for the first time. "This thing is mission, not his." he says at length. "He will be just as dead, either way," Vramin repeats. "But not by my hand." "True. But I fail to see the distinction." "So do I, for that matter. But it is who have been charged with the task." "Perhaps Horus has also." "But not by master." "Why should you have a master, Wakim? Why are you not your own man?" Wakim rubs his forehead. "I--do not--really know.... But I must do as I am told." | assassin master autonomy authority | Roger Zelazny |