I feel genuinely sorry for those who are so blinded by narrow partisanship that they cannot appreciate Limbaugh's energy, intelligence and satiric… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
As far Chicago, our city was designed with racism in mind, with neighborhoods segregated by expressways and train tracks. Even suburbs, like… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S.… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Senator John McCain is unlike anybody else in not - not just in the Senate but in American politics. He's unlike anybody… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
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
I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or… — Mark Mazower Copy Share Image
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
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
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