I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
... you know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what… — Jerry Taylor Copy Share Image
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
The desire the law makers have in having only dispensary owners to control marijuana is part of the game our law makers… — Steven Machat Copy Share Image
If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
“The issue — which is about 95 percent political and five percent scientific — won’t go away. The Left will use it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I think The New Yorker's cartoons aren't very political because the people who do the cartoons aren't awfully political people, and they… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The problem with the finance sector is not that it has crashed (though that has done enormous damage around the world) but… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I'm like, "Well, damn, that means that I have to carry a flag." I don't have the freedom to just do anything,… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“We are rendered powerless; our voice is silenced by whatever form of elitism is working through a political system that gives us… — Alan Watkins Copy Share Image
In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
I was just a seventeen-year-old kid, going to Times Square to participate in this left-wing demonstration. The signs were for peace and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
To the extent that our political dialogue is such where everything is under suspicion, everybody is corrupt and everybody is doing things… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
For the United States, our political system is clearly distorted. We have gerrymandering so that there is a situation where a million… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image