If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.
Interpretation
Responding to terrorism by sacrificing human rights leads to the victory of those we oppose.
Joichi Ito emphasizes that sacrificing fundamental human rights and the rule of law in the face of terrorism is a self-defeating action. By compromising these core principles, we allow terrorists to achieve their goal of instilling fear and chaos, ultimately undermining the very values we seek to protect.
In practice
During a public debate on civil liberties after an attack, this quote could highlight the importance of upholding rights.
Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.
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The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is
Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.
It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults.
All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
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