It is with great pleasure that I see the political system of almost every power in Europe changing in our favor since… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
“[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement.” — Amitav Ghosh 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 fight for equality is a battle to be seen and heard. But the price of political power has been the scrutiny,… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Nowhere did sociopathic avarice, deceit, imprudence, and political power combine more powerfully than in tax policy, which allowed the Boomers to reshuffle… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
As more wealth and political power is amassed - as bitcoins rise in value - Congress and various lobbying groups will be… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
“In the absence of centralized decision-making, Hebrard's town plans for Indochina had no equivalent in France itself. This is because territorial development… — Helen Grant Ross Copy Share Image
“But for another thing, there's no law of nature which says that control over capital has to be in a few hands―that's… — Noam Chomsky 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
America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical… — Richard Barnet Copy Share Image
“By 1750, Rhode Island was recognized as the nation’s most active trading center for slaves.7 In 1774, Newport was declared the most… — Cynthia Mestad Johnson 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
“Progressivism is a spectrum; it’s not an ideology following one leader saying one thing. It’s many people who have very wildly diverging… — Urvashi Vaid Copy Share Image
“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“The story, which has seemed to be all about religion and military developments, is actually mostly about politics: access to government revenue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Moreover, how effective can it possibly be for an individual to assert his autonomy [jishusei] when encountering a reality in which even… — Abe Kobo Copy Share Image
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those… — Gloria Steinem 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
I believe the first reason that Donald Trump is running for president is because he truly believes that he can help turn… — Omarosa Manigault Newman Copy Share Image
“Hume's skepticism in morals does not arise from his being struck by the diversity of the moral judgments of mankind. As I… — John Rawls 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
From the starch-heavy 'food pyramid' to ethanol fuel, the government adopts programs not because they are right but because they gains votes,… — Robert Prechter Copy Share Image
“We saw in the previous chapter how the process of political centralization under the Tudor monarchy in England increased demands for voice… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country.… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“The political power had intervened, and such was its necessary effect. The Western farmers, who willingly took what appeared to be the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The Pashtuns feel discriminated against by the Americans because they supported the Taliban and the war is still going on in their… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“As historian Gerald McKnight observes, “King was proposing nothing less than a radical transformation of the Civil Rights Movement into a populist… — Michelle Alexander 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
“Russell observes that "the merits of democracy are negative: it does not ensure good government, but it prevents certain evils," such as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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