Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to… — Russel Honore Copy Share Image
A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We should try to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to find a great life. It's a quest that will require… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Those fighters, the Syrian part that you're talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society - they don't have incubators… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Donald Trump both disbelieves and believes in falsehoods, so that when he did thrive on his longstanding - the claim that Obama… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder… But… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is all about keeping her [Hillary Clinton] and her husband [Bill Clinton] as far away from the levers of power as… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
I think the federal Liberals' micro-tinkering is not causing any kind of upsurge in public confidence. The challenge for Conservatives is how… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques… — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
“The lawyer is not worth in the calm times; his great role is when he must take the power of the despots,… — Rui Barbosa Copy Share Image
[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing… — Collin Peterson Copy Share Image
Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were… — Robert McFarlane Copy Share Image
I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image