Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We should know that the American administration is very much involved with the Egyptian army. And when you talk about the Egyptian… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Voting for Trump will either hasten the return of Jesus, according to evangelical belief, or to allow evangelicals to regain political power… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I've got three little kids at home, and I'm trying to save this country from itself. I'm not here to play political… — Devin Nunes Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
“The goal was organized resistance to racial subjugation, and its harassing effect was probably more potent precisely because they risked so much… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
My passionate belief is in the role of movements to achieve political power to transform society. In this country, we talk about… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
“But you know, General, Jesus never came to establish a government upon the people by force. He did not even talk about… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“Religious people should always be wary of the ways in which political power is wielded and skeptical of how economic privileges are… — E.J. Dionne Jr Copy Share Image
“The Germans are notably literate; and they had very fine technical schools. Their literacy enabled them to read "Mein Kampf," and their… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing… — Nahum Goldmann Copy Share Image
New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies.… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“It therefore is necessary to consider the possibility that administrative law was an instrument of a class that took a dim view… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“There are maybe a hundred thousand political power brokers in this country who are truly invested in the perpetuation of a coin-operated… — Wendell Potter Copy Share Image
“Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“That hidden economy, which still exists today, is one of love. There is self-interest, certainly, in all of these women's endeavors; for… — Kate Harding Copy Share Image
“Inclusive economic and political institutions do not emerge by themselves. They are often the outcome of significant conflict between elites resisting economic… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Because the common law was not simply the creature of political power-holders, it became another of the forces for separation of powers… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The only sure way to stop excessive risk taking on Wall Street so you don't risk losing your job, or your savings… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Western ‘civilisation’ has been based on the ideas of ancient Greece, where the concept of ‘democracy’ (government by the people) assumed that… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is… — Pierre Clastres Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some… — Plato Copy Share Image
Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
“I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all…They want a certain kind of identity; they're jockeying with… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and… — John Sherman Copy Share Image
