What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“The administrative and hierarchic aspects seem to be crucial in the evolution of belief systems. The truth is first revealed to all… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are disturbed as to how, by, and against whom… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Inclusive economic and political institutions do not emerge by themselves. They are often the outcome of significant conflict between elites resisting economic… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Many outsiders clarified that they believe Christians have a right (even an obligation) to pursue political involvement, but they disagree with our… — David Kinnaman Copy Share Image
By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges'… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“It isn't only political power that grows out of the barrel of a gun. So does a whole definition of reality. A… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
“Our world isn’t about ideology anymore. It’s about complexity. We live in a complex bureaucratic state with complex laws and complex business… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“WE SAW HOW INCLUSIVE economic and political institutions emerge. But why do they persist over time? The history of the Black Act… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until… — Plato Copy Share Image
