“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 everyone who has read the Marxists critically has not failed to see... the gospel of St. Marx is just the old… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all… — Liezi Copy Share Image
My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
“The dictator State has one great advantage over bourgeois reason: along with the individual it swallows up his religious forces. The State… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“All in all, French armies wrought much suffering in Europe, but they also radically changed the lay of the land. In much… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
“Don’t telegraph your goals; infiltrate the Democratic Party and other liberal institutions and subvert them; treat moral principles as dispensable fictions; and… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Speaker Pelosi is very political, but I haven't got the same power... Not saying I would refuse it. In fact, it's very… — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them. Divorced from White… — David Duke Copy Share Image
“There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“IS WHERE POWER GOES”: the most significant factor in any equation that adds up to political power, Lyndon Johnson had assured his… — Robert A. Caro 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
If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
“Throughout history the cross stands as a symbol of protest and revolt; protest against all claims, whether by religious or political power,… — Megan McKenna 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
In 1986, Tanton published an article in which he argued: 'To govern is to populate ... Will the present majority peaceably hand… — John Tanton 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
Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem.… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“tended to be regarded as either an individual or a racial problem rather than a structural one.”347 There was simply no appetite—or… — Ganesh Sitaraman Copy Share Image
