One cannot understand a political "system" detached from…

“Americans had become lazy and irresponsible, focused on the pursuit of sex, money, and pleasures, unwilling to sacrifice and prepare for the obvious threats…

— Drew Miller

“China has undergone an enormous transformation. But because the political system remains unchanged, the great changes in the economic and social sphere have resulted…

— Yang Jisheng

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

— Jack London

But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly…

— Yaron Brook

We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching…

— Ani DiFranco

As a nation, we are not good at long-term planning, and no wonder: Our political system insists that every president be allowed to appoint…

— Anne Applebaum

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system;…

— John Trudell

The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor…

— Marianne Williamson

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are…

— Michelle Alexander

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent…

— David R. Brower

The more we allow Republicans to concentrate the lion's share of wealth in the hands of a few, the more power these wealthy few…

— Tom Steyer

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good.…

— Leon Krier

What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi…

— Donald Rumsfeld

Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political…

— Albert J. Nock