Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
Interpretation
Occupying territories negatively impacts global reputation and fuels terrorism.
This quote highlights the detrimental effects of occupation on a nation's international standing and security. It asserts that occupying forces can contribute to the rise of terrorism by creating resentment and hostility, ultimately exacerbating conflict rather than resolving it.
In practice
During a speech on international relations, one might quote this to illustrate the importance of diplomacy over occupation.
Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.
No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.
Those whose thinking is disciplined by science, like all others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Such visions and hope and faith are not a part of science.
Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in the force of the illusion are difficult to predict.
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
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