It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law. — Mel White Copy Share Image
We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Republican theory clearly stated that the people held all political power, and only they could delegate authority to a government. The people… — James D. Best Copy Share Image
The central base of world political power is right here in America, and it is our corrupt political establishment that is the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
“The fact that they did not ask for political power, however, did not mean that they were happy as ever. The native’s… — David Van Reybrouck Copy Share Image
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until… — Plato Copy Share Image
Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or… — Plato Copy Share Image
But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When… — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
“Every type of political power presupposes some particular form of human slavery, for the maintenance of which it is called into being.… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Fugitive Peace (Sonnet 2219) In the opera of war, peace is fugitive - thinking soldiers are no good to state, either you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Many outsiders clarified that they believe Christians have a right (even an obligation) to pursue political involvement, but they disagree with our… — David Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The natural desire of the human mind is to become special - to become special in the ways of the world, to… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Deng’s judgment about the importance of strong economic growth was later validated by a series of studies of the collapse of the… — Arthur R. Kroeber Copy Share Image
Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
“Politics? Check out a book on thermodynamics. All the rules apply. What you're talking about is essentially energy, or the absence of… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
It is to the advantage of Hispanics not to be taken for granted by one party and ignored by the other. Hispanics… — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, 'I'm New Here,' doesn't mince… — Will Hermes Copy Share Image
“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image