All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
What we've also got to think about is the limitations of military power. Maybe it's time to focus on the economic issues,… — Paul Rieckhoff Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of… — Tom Rice Copy Share Image
You have climate change and antibiotic resistance which are two of the biggest horses of the apocalypse, and they're basically breathing on… — Moby Copy Share Image
To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I look in a right of property - on the right of individuals, to have and to own, for their own separate… — Thomas Hodgskin Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because… — John Baird Copy Share Image
I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I've never seen myself as a strictly political songwriter in a sense, but I think in the world that we live in,… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
War challenges virtually every other institution of society-the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of… — Ulrike Meinhof Copy Share Image
Political leaders in Belarus are routinely repressed, and their voices are muffled: Tsikhanouskaya was running for president because her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Clearly, I have things to say. I definitely have my opinion, and I definitely have a voracious appetite for analyzing social and… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“modern times, of course, political ideologies have taken over the numinous function, with the face of the leader multiplied on a thousand… — Erik H. Erikson Copy Share Image
Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is… — Tomas Borge Copy Share Image
About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
As a literary device, sugar and pastry carried so many nuances - the sweetness of the past, the danger of overeating and… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
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