I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
This is me putting it simply; the politicians are one demographic and they see that Arizona is changing. I feel like the… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, democracy is no guarantee that there will be pluralism. The contrast of the development of pluralistic institutions in… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Definition: a pathocracy isfrom Greek pathos, “feeling, pain, suffering”; and kratos, “rule.” A totalitarian form of government in which absolute political power… — Cara St.Louis Copy Share Image
We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Politics? Check out a book on thermodynamics. All the rules apply. What you're talking about is essentially energy, or the absence of… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that… — Ron Bloom Copy Share Image
The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The diminishing economic role of the United States in the global economy means that global political power will also become more dispersed.… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Finally, when growth comes under extractive political institutions but where economic institutions have inclusive aspects, as they did in South Korea, there… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people… — Sun Yat-sen 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
[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Today, the District of Columbia has more residents than at least two other states; Puerto Rico has more than 20. With numbers… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as humanism gained increasing social credibility and political power, it sprouted two very different offshoots: socialist… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities.… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Voting for Trump will either hasten the return of Jesus, according to evangelical belief, or to allow evangelicals to regain political power… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
“Political power was thus widely dispersed in Somali society, almost pluralistically. But without the authority of a centralized state to enforce order,… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image