“Like it or not, philosophy or intellectual activity in ancient China was distinguished from manual labor, and thus philosophical texts were not… — Hans-Georg Moeller Copy Share Image
“More recently, Lucas described a visit in Europe, after the release of Revenge of the Sith, “with a dozen reporters, and the… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
You know, my sense is that transparency is a good thing. It also has to be what - private information should be… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“With the declassed character of lumpenproletarians in mind, Marx had stated that they are as capable of “the most heroic deeds and… — Joy James Copy Share Image
Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America is that… — James Inhofe Copy Share Image
Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
When students have access to low-interest loans and government aid, colleges have no incentive to cut costs. Why should a college lower… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative… — James Kent Copy Share Image
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“all states can be parceled into four types: pluralist, in which the state is seen by its people as having moral legitimacy;… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Direct action meant that the goal of any and all of these activities was to provide ways for people to get in… — Martha Ackelsberg Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Public respect for politicians has long been declining, even as the population at large has been seduced into responding to each new… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Without medical records that he hasn't released, we can't know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother's manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“Luftmenschen were also eternal students, lost souls, young people who spent their lives arguing politics in cafés and drifting through the student… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you should not think too hard on the political struggles. I think it is better if you find your freedom in… — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
As a member of Congress, a coequal branch of government designed by our founders to provide checks and balances on the executive… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
“Parasitus Politicas (Sonnet 2846) Law is not justice, justice is often illegal. Government is not the culture, culture lives outside the government.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the… — Sting Copy Share Image
We don't discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
“Templates of how we organize and govern such as partnerships, corporations, or nonprofits have not be updated in centuries, we still use… — Richie Etwaru Copy Share Image
“If, as PJ O'Rourke ones quipped, giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys,… — Mark Hemingway Copy Share Image
In Burma, under the present Constitution, the Army can always take over all parts of government if they think this is necessary.… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“I should have paid greater attention to my mentor in graduate school, Samuel Huntington, who once explained that Americans never recognize that,… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
With Islamophobic tendencies in Europe and North America it is quite possible that Islamic leaders could be charged with 'political genocide'. An… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image