The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
“Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“What's the story here, Karl?' Kevin asked. 'Hard as it is to believe, these people are slaves,' Karl explained. 'Slaves?' I asked… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
“the ethical and political ideas of Locke, Rousseau and Jefferson. However, once the heretical scientific insights are translated into everyday technology, routine… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I am not anarchist. I have nothing against government or law enforcement in general. It is solely for the reason that this… — Eric Rudolph Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
To have a government for and by the people, the people should be appointed to serve on state entities, not lobbyists who… — Kay Ivey Copy Share Image
The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Unlike sociology, a pariah science that is always under suspicion for its supposed political leanings, and from which the powerful expect nothing… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
I hear so many people talking about what's wrong, whether it's climate change or whatever, but so few say, 'Well, look, we've… — Jenny Shipley Copy Share Image
There is no direct and immediate connection between the individual citizens of a state and the general government. The relation between them… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons .… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Astute social commentators had been anticipating this rightward shift since the early 1980s. Bertram Gross predicted, in his book Friendly Fascism, that… — Steve Brouwer Copy Share Image
I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members.… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid… — John Ringo Copy Share Image
I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“All of human civilization, he says, is basically a result of immortality projects: the cities and governments and structures and authorities in… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
For millions of women, health centers that provide reproductive healthcare are the only place they ever see a doctor or nurse. When… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
I am not from the political or banking elite. I am a child of the middle class far from Paris. And if… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it… — Mick Cornett Copy Share Image
'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
Governments spend all their time trying to get big companies to relocate their headquarters, and they end up subsidizing the move with… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I know perception is reality in politics and I know how it looks, but the reality is Democrats lost the election and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Practically every radical cause in America today shows the influence of this postmodernist assault. From radical feminism to racial and sexual politics,… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
