vaclav Havel, surely....


In principal, however, I believe that there are cases when it is possible and proper to go to the aid of innocent people, even at the cost of violating state sovereignty. In one of my speeches I said: a state is the work of humans, a human being is the work of God. What I meant was that defending human beings is a higher responsibility than respecting the inviolability of a state. One must, however, constantly and carefully scrutinize such humanistic arguments to determine that it is not just a pretty façade concealing far less respectable interests, be they strategic, economic, or other. The world should never automatically approve the intervention of one state against another state that is justified by a defense of humanity.
(the guys, again, there're just so great!)
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