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“Since we can all agree that it's wrong to kill, why do we allow the State to kill?”
John Grisham
Capital Punishment
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Ethics
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State Power
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Moral Consistency
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Societal Values
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“War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.”
Simone Weil
War
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State Power
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Production
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Political Economy
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Militarization
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Societal Critique
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“Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.”
Simone Weil
State Power
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Obedience
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Historical Development
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Political Philosophy
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Social Critique
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Individual Autonomy
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“The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”
John F. Kennedy
Human rights
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Divine rights
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State power
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Religious belief
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Personal freedom
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Moral rights
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Rachel Hollis
Bob Proctor
Dan Sullivan
Susan Cain
Michael Hyatt
Mark Cuban
Les Brown
Patrick Bet-David
Neil Gaiman
Douglas Adams
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Albert Einstein
William Shakespeare
Mahatma Gandhi
Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Oprah Winfrey
Martin Luther King Jr.
John Lennon
Oscar Wilde
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