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For the first time in America since John F. Kennedy’s presidency, politics is seen as a potentially noble venture.
Neuer missed a rare opportunity to do something noble in front of millions of people.
And, while this may seem justified by a noble goal, such “policy by panic” tactics rarely work, and often backfire.
As noble as these goals are, they will be overshadowed if he continues his campaign against those who entrusted him with their hopes.
He has fallen desperately short in making real progress towards the Promised Land, in which America lives in peace with the Muslim world, thanks to an Israeli-Palestinian settlement; brings about a nuclear-free planet (a noble, yet entirely delusional pledge); gets Russia’s support in addressing other global problems; contains China’s quest to translate its growing economic power into major strategic gains; ends its two diversionary wars in Muslim countries; and leads a solid international alliance to cut short Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
US President Barack Obama has become one of the most prominent global advocates of abolishing nuclear weapons, a position for which he unexpectedly received a Noble Peace Prize last year.
As the head of the government that carried out these acts, British Prime Minister David Cameron has betrayed his country’s most noble cultural legacy.
There is cruel irony in the observation that in the country which Jinnah created in the name of Islam, that noble faith itself now constitutes the principal challenge to the very survival of the state.
It is all too easy for leaders to convince themselves that they are telling a noble lie for the good of their followers, when in fact they are merely lying for political or personal convenience.
Capital Markets for DevelopmentWASHINGTON, DC – Ending extreme poverty and building shared prosperity across the developing world are noble goals; but they are also expensive, requiring financing on a scale far greater than what governments in developing countries, their donors, and local financial institutions are able to provide.
Openness is in this respect like pacifism: just as we cannot embrace complete disarmament while others stand ready to use their weapons, so Woodrow Wilson’s world of open diplomacy is a noble ideal that cannot be fully realized in the world in which we live.
For Schumpeter, there was something both noble and tragic about the spirit of capitalism.
Participants in the solemn conferences organized in various vacation spots around the world were able to feel wise and noble, secure in the secret knowledge that nobody would ever take their proposals seriously.
Among its first victims would be the noble aspirations of the OSCE, and NATO’s investment in Afghanistan.
I can hardly think of a better way for the EU to dishonor the noble ideals of freedom, equality, and human rights that the Union espouses – indeed, principles that it reiterates in its constitutional agreement.
Dealing with despots and shady tycoons is no longer venal, but noble.
There can be no doubt that those who are attempting to help people involved in disasters and trauma have noble motives, but that is not enough.
All fine and noble sentiments.
These are, to be sure, laudable gestures in the service of a noble goal.
Of course, the eradication of polio is a noble goal.
That was a noble thing to do, but a key question was never asked: Why should someone who is able to travel to another country have priority over others who are in refugee camps and unable to travel?
Congress probably would have derailed the entire list of noble goals that comprised his platform – single-payer health care, free college for all, campaign-finance reform, and breaking up big banks – as unbearably costly, if not “un-American.”
With Nietzche’s ideas in mind, British voters might recognize that the real question they must answer on June 23 is whether to endorse petty and divisive power politics or the great and noble politics of unification.
Attracting neighbors has long been a noble aspiration – and something of a European specialty.
No one can visit Iraq and talk to Iraqis without coming away with the sense that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein was an important – even noble – accomplishment.
The SDGs are noble and certainly ambitious.
But while the goal is noble, not all of its 192 member countries stick to the rules.
He was describing democracy at its best, its most noble, as it should be, but not always is: freely mobilized men and women able and willing to change the course of their destiny.
These are noble aspirations – but very expensive.
In poverty one still keeps a kind of “innate noble sentiment,” while in misery moral collapse is inherent and disastrous.
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