When I have political discussions with my friends, I piss them off because my personal position is that there's no difference between… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the… — Charles Ruff Copy Share Image
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It's clear from what we have already learned that the Obama administration freely used our tax dollars for political purposes, including support… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion,… — Plato Copy Share Image
I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never… — George Michael Copy Share Image
He [Hugo Chavez] put poverty at the heart of political debate. Rightly so, given the country's immense inequality and poverty. He invested… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
On the other side of the spectrum, you see someone like Donald Trump, who is using as the basis of his campaign… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I think the problems with comedians that are political, and there are some brilliant ones, are the ones that offer no solutions.… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and… — William Petty Copy Share Image
We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
I don't use my money to gain political influence for my private interests, which is what many rich people do, and what,… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy;… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed… — George Soros Copy Share Image
John Kerry's newfound interest in fiscal discipline is a political gimmick that defies his 20-year record in the Senate and stands in… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
It almost seems like anyone who doesn't seem political in any way is at an advantage. It's almost like anti-politics. A stage… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments,… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
“Many times man looks and doesn't see, other times he hears and doesn't understand, and this is serious. Now, when this intellectual… — Frederico Rochaferreira Copy Share Image
Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned… — Sandy Hume Copy Share Image
Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
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