“Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
The only sure way to stop excessive risk taking on Wall Street so you don't risk losing your job, or your savings… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Because the common law was not simply the creature of political power-holders, it became another of the forces for separation of powers… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is… — Pierre Clastres Copy Share Image
While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“Western ‘civilisation’ has been based on the ideas of ancient Greece, where the concept of ‘democracy’ (government by the people) assumed that… — Gabrielle Palmer 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
Impeachment must not be a raw exercise of political power in which the House impeaches whoever it wishes for any reason it… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests;… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The Greens have not been providing you with the full information about where their money comes from or what it's about. I… — Clive Palmer Copy Share Image
Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to… — Ann Curry 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
“An apparently old and often cited dictum extolling the superiority of scholars over statesmen was attributed to the legendary grammarian of the… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“(After relaying horrific stories that have been shared in popular news.) All of these stories are true. The conflict has seen acts… — Jason K. Stearns Copy Share Image
“Military leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is continually challenged, and must continually prove it self anew against fresh obstacles.… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn 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
“Murdoch believed he understood better than younger men, even seventy-year-old Trump, that political power was fleeting. (This was in fact the same… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“I believe it was Napoleon who first sensed the ease with which, in modern society, the illusion of freedom can be created… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“Without the changes in political institutions and political power similar to those that emerged in England after 1688, there was little chance… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of… — Karl Popper 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“The immediate aim of the Communist is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic… — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and… — John Sherman Copy Share Image
The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
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