Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can… — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
“Politics needs a certain mental ability,” explained Ahmad Saati, the university’s spokesman. “Very few women have this kind of mind.” I” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“A nation of sheep will "beget a government of wolves." – EDWARD R. MURROW CBS BROADCAST JOURNALIST 1908-1965” — John W. Whitehead Copy Share Image
As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to… — John C. Goodman Copy Share Image
Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, in a hierarchical structure, power relationships tend to determine the content; there is always the danger that a "rank-based" logic will… — John Médaille Copy Share Image
“Isaiah 9:6–7 says, “For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If anyone attempted to rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and sword on the plea that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
It's not a passion of mine to follow politics. When I deal with political issues in my songs, I just say stuff… — Too Short Copy Share Image
Politics is a game of great patience. A woman has to hold her ground and maintain dignity, holding her head high. — Nagma Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
“President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
People close to me personally, politically, have expressed frustration that I'm not the political animal that they wish that I were. — Ayanna Pressley Copy Share Image
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it. — Yiannis Stournaras Copy Share Image
A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election… — Chaz Bufe Copy Share Image
For me, coming from the women's movement, politics is not just about parties and parliament. There is politics in our private space… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
As government imposes the will of a few upon the many, the many begin to resist. Ultimately, it becomes necessary for the… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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