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A world in which the bankers are rescued but all other debtors, including
governments, are not: this is the worst of all possible worlds. In fact it is a
sterile world in which the economy produces only instability, failure and the grapes of wrath.

And there exists, it seems to me, something utterly measureless, which people never tire of laying their hands on by means of standards, surveys, and institutions.

To force solitude on a man who has just come to understand that he is not alone, is that not the definite crime against man?

The new harms we face entail challenges to the sanctity of the individual, and chief among these challenges I count the elemental rights that bear on individual sovereignty, including the right to the future tense and the right to sanctuary. Each of these rights invokes claims to individual agency and personal autonomy as essential prerequisites to freedom of will and to the very concept of democratic order. (p. 54)