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
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 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
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 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
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
[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
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting… — George Washington Copy Share Image
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
For decades, since the mid-twentieth century, the nationalist movement, and Fatah in particular, has dominated the political scene. Palestinian politics were primarily… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“unlike Winston, she had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created… — Orwell.G Copy Share Image
Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
This is sort of the epitome of the economic elite that is converging with a political elite. It's not only the banks… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Trump's not showing up and trying to politely insert himself in political system and the way politicians do things. He's not trying… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If there is any person that I do follow somewhat closely, at least ideas I like, it's been Frederich Nietzsche, but he's… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Some folks ask me what the transition was like from NASCAR reporter to political reporter. It's easy. In one, you try to… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image