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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Arab Arabs Cannon Content Corruption Could Countries Distract Even Israel Masses Numbers Palestinians Peace Powers Red Repression Sufficient Surrounding Tomorrow Used Were While

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Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Arithmetic Does Economics Either Grade Half Now Psychology Right Three

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Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

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Topics: Atrocity Christians Perhaps Persecution World

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A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Both Faith Heresy Identical Knowledge Leads Moral Often Outside Quest Relativism Secular Spirituality Superstition Taken War Which Wickedness

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At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.

~Conrad Black

Topics: American Concern Court Criminal Criminal Justice Human Justice Knows Least Percent Prisoners Scant Shows Side Supreme Supreme Court

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Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Against Given Hard Iranian Israel Issue Right Self-Defense Take Threats

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The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and then could not object when the British did the same.

~Conrad Black

Topics: American British Could Did Fraud Non-Proliferation Nuclear Object Policy Powers Prevent Same Soviets Then Whole

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The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Balance Between Define Determination Each Each Individual Faith Government Government Officials Individual Officials People Reason Try Whole

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Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Active Almost Almost All Constantly Criminal Demands Increasingly Industry Labor Lead More Officers Penalties Prison Public Unskilled

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The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: August 25th, 1944

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