Jonas Gahr Store Quotes
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If Hamas wants to be part of the real world, it has to end up accepting Israel's right to exist.
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Norway will be recognized as an open democracy with the rule of law, with the universal human rights, and with the broad international engagement on the international scene taking upon ourselves responsibilities, because we are a privileged country.
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The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'
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Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.
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Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.
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Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.
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Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.
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This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground.
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As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.
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My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.