In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign],… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether “we, the people” is a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't want to pretend like I'm clairvoyant or anything, but I had a tremendous sense of malaise about our political future.… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
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Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies.… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I’ve never seen an exploding helicopter. I’ve never seen anybody go and blow somebody’s head off. So why should I make films… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The Baltic republics have invented something totally new. Do you know what? They use the word 'non-citizens' for people who have been… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I think what we're hopeful is through this Syrian process, working with coalition members, working with the U.N., and in particular working… — Rex W. Tillerson Copy Share Image
[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
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Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I was one of the actors in 'Braveheart,' and that had a huge impact on the political scene in Scotland. One of… — James Cosmo Copy Share Image
I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton]… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
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In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
![“That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.” quote by Julian Assange](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2f2/julian-assange-1566_application_that-was-a-brave-and-principled-thing-fo_498184.jpg)
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![“[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable to all peoples everywhere; they were his contribution to what he called "the divine science of politics."” quote by Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c71/gordon-s-wood-13199_constitutionalism_john-adams-identified-himself-with-the-p_226327.jpg)
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