My family life and early political life - being exposed to the news constantly, being enrolled in an Afrocentric education program, and… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Were "A Clockwork Orange" or "Blue Velvet" released today, would they have the same power to shock that they had when they… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“With the term vita activa, I propose to designate three fundamental human activities: labor, work, and action. They are fundamental because each… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The problem in the Syrian opposition is not between Islamists and non-Islamists. It was the lack of any political experience after 50… — Burhan Ghalioun Copy Share Image
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain.… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favorable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
The Russians succeeded, I believe, beyond their wildest expectations. Their first objective in the election was to sow discontent, discord, and disruption… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
Before anything else, I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
“Jefferson’s decision to acquire Louisiana without seeking a constitutional amendment expanded the powers of the executive in ways that would likely have… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I think those who have followed my political life would have known that I don't believe in just blind loyalty. — Tan Cheng Bock Copy Share Image
