Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from… — Ron Holland Copy Share Image
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important… — Nguyen Cao Ky Copy Share Image
Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed… — Phyllis Bennis Copy Share Image
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to,… — Steve Garvey Copy Share Image
“What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
“It is said that the personal is political. That is not true, of course. At the core of the fight for political… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The conservative side of our political spectrum has had an outsized voice over the last few years. I think especially since the… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
I'm in bed, so to speak, more with those people who consider themselves atheists but who are concerned about the same things,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There were various aspects of Sun Tzu's approach that appealed to Ho Chi Minh: a) to learn to understand both the enemy… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation,… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
I try to speak in a manner that allows people to tell me apart from my political adversaries. And I speak in… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Chankaya is referring there to the probibition of entry of the untrustworthy in the counsel-room. Disloyal persons foolishly speak out the secrets… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's so important for people in political groups to learn the difference between productive criticism and not. When it's about something you… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you truly care about animal rights and have a passion for it, take some action. Whether it's hands-on or political, just… — Mac Danzig Copy Share Image
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Addressing politics in my music' is such a phrase, a sentence on paper, that I hate. That's not really me because at… — Amine Copy Share Image