The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Most Jewish feminists and gays that I know remain angry and frustrated by Jewish progressives. Deeply committed to progressive causes, frequently in… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
What I hear from many people on all sides of the political spectrum is that Palestine has been so carved up now… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
He [Hugo Chavez] put poverty at the heart of political debate. Rightly so, given the country's immense inequality and poverty. He invested… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
On the other side of the spectrum, you see someone like Donald Trump, who is using as the basis of his campaign… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and… — William Petty Copy Share Image
I think the problems with comedians that are political, and there are some brilliant ones, are the ones that offer no solutions.… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
One of the things that perhaps we can learn through the political process about bringing people together is to remember South Carolina,… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
But political parties must claim to be radically different from one another, and political journalism must play along, or else why exist?… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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![“I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.” quote by David Plotz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b04/david-plotz-14341_bible_i-do-think-students-in-public-school-and_134953.png)
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![“[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you…” quote by Ed Crane](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b8b/ed-crane-39299_affair_t-here-are-at-bottom-basically-two-ways_34431.jpg)
