Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
[John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . .Political unification in some sort of… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The central question for American politics right now is how did the country that elected Barack Obama elect Donald Trump. There's a… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell there political and… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washington, during Black Congressional… — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues -… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof… — Lucius Beebe Copy Share Image
If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart… — Marjorie Scardino Copy Share Image
"Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The administration Ill bring is a group of men and women who are focused on whats best for America, honest men and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am… — H. D. Deve Gowda Copy Share Image
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