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" An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents. "

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" Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow. "

" In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right. "

" In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War. "

" Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office. "

" Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists. "

" Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends. "

" The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government. "

" I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests. "

" The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted. "

" In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change. "

" A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television. "

" I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis. "

" The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul. "

" I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption. "

" When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen. "

" Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century. "

" The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides. "

" In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction. "

" In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses. "

" I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it. "

" Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all. "

" We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69. "

" Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world. "

" I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted. "

" Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups. "

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" In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg. "

" Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever. "

" Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question. "

" The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance. "

" As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America. "