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Were Berlusconi only a statesman, one could argue that realpolitik is a justifiable prerogative of a sovereign state: strategic considerations often trump the pursuit of more noble goals, such as promotion of human rights.
Until last year, many observers regarded R2P as at best a pious hope or a noble failure.
How do we start laying the foundation for such a noble cause?
China’s Best Hope2008 will not be remembered chiefly for noble or heroic acts.
Of course, forgiving the debts of the poor is undoubtedly noble.
Sadly, not everything that is noble is smart and effective.
A noble dream just several years ago, the elimination of nuclear arms is no longer the idea only of populists and pacifists; it has now been adopted by professionals – politicians known for their realism and academics known for their sense of responsibility.
Ai’s arrest and disappearance, along with the severe prison sentence imposed on the Noble Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, are driven by the same motivation: to dam the potential for political unrest and purge independent intellectuals.
The desire to help others without consideration for ourselves is not just a noble ideal.
More broadly, many of the policies (especially those associated with the neoliberal “Washington Consensus”) foisted on developing countries with the noble objective of promoting the efficiency of resource allocation today actually impede learning, and thus lead to lower standards of living in the long run.
The memos that the Obama administration has disclosed teach us that anyone who complies with seemingly noble principles dictated by a “sense of duty” or by the necessary “defense of the homeland,” or who is urged by a basic fear for his own life and welfare, or the lives and welfare of his kin, can become a torturer.
Many of McNamara’s critics assert – rightly, I think – that he stopped short of full understanding, that he sought to hold fast to claims of noble intentions that the record could not sustain.
How noble are intentions when the facts showing their horrific results are readily at hand yet overlooked?
This made the notion of celibacy, a perhaps noble, but for most people impossible ideal, bearable.
Defusing MigrationLONDON – Voters in the United Kingdom have done the unthinkable, choosing to leave the European Union – a truly noble project that, whatever its shortcomings, has promoted peace and stability across the continent for more than a half-century.
He chose the "unity of Russia," and the "threat of Russia's disintegration" as the foundation of his politics and so "took on the noble task to crack down on all separatists."
Openness is a noble principle, with the potential to stimulate competition, foster innovation, and promote dialogue among countries.
And, although most of us who took the bait never ventured farther than city hall, we were nonetheless driven by the noble mission of holding the powerful to account.
The problem with this Germanophobia is not simply that it is stupid, or that it is yet another symptom of the decomposition, before our eyes, of the noble European project of integration and ever-closer union.
“[T]his noble continent…is the fountain of Christian faith and Christian ethics,” he claimed.
But the FTT, despite its noble intellectual lineage, is no solution to Europe’s problems – or to the world’s.
Nothing would be sadder than to see them also have to pay for last Sunday’s “No” – a farcical simulation of those earlier noble acts of defiance.
Quantitative easing, or QE (the Federal Reserve’s program of monthly purchases of long-term assets), began as a noble endeavor – well timed and well articulated as the Fed’s desperate antidote to a wrenching crisis.
How noble and courageous that sounds.
To activists of good faith who may have been taken in by duplicitous representations of the movement, I would say only that there are too many noble causes in need of assistance to allow oneself to be enlisted in a dubious one.
The bad news is that Europe’s feebleness and America’s fatigue might also signal the limits of noble ideas such as the obligation to interfere in order to protect populations being brutalized by their own rulers.
It is a noble set of goals, but it sometimes appears to be distant from the region's political realities.
On the Israeli side, approximately 200,000 settlers on the West Bank and further development of the settlements weigh heavier than all noble words about two states.
These figures, who were indeed often inspired by noble motives, held a firm belief that their innate Protestant virtue gave them the right to govern.
Nowadays, cosmopolitans are former UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s “citizens of nowhere”: a foil for the noble citizens of somewhere who remain firmly rooted in the communities supposedly under attack by the globalization promoted by heartless cosmopolitans.
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