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I Am Convinced That We Will Never Build A Democratic State Based On Rule Of Law If We Do Not At The Same Time Build A State That Is-regardless Of How Unscientific This May Sound To The Ears Of A Political Scientist-humane, Moral, Intellectual And Spiritual, And Cultural.

Hope Is The Deep Orientation Of The Human Soul That Can Be Held At The Darkest Times.

Because The Regime Is Captive To Its Own Lies, It Must Falsify Everything. It Falsifies The Past. It Falsifies The Present, And It Falsifies The Future. It Falsifies Statistics. It Pretends Not To Possess An Omnipotent And Unprincipled Police Apparatus. It Pretends To Respect Human Rights. It Pretends To Prosecute No One. It Pretends To Fear Nothing. It Pretends To Pretend Nothing.

Ultimately, Power Only Really Listens To Power, And If Government Is To Be Improved, We Must Be Able To Threaten Its Existence, Not Merely Its Reputation.

The Idea Of Human Rights And Freedoms Must Be An Integral Part Of Any Meaningful World Order. Yet, I Think It Must Be Anchored In A Different Place, And In A Different Way, Than Has Been The Case So Far. If It Is To Be More Than Just A Slogan Mocked By Half The World, It Cannot Be Expressed In The Language Of A Departing Era, And It Must Not Be Mere Froth Floating On The Subsiding Waters Of Faith In A Purely Scientific Relationship To The World.