Ultimately, to insist that rock criticism be political is first to insist that the humans who make and enjoy music are embroiled… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false,… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
And all the things I thought were mistakes and I did cartoons on them. And then I think I was the first… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
Even if you're trying to remain objective, even if you're trying not to mount any campaigns or endorse anything, when you cover… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Everybody runs for political office knocking somebody, and very few run on 'This is what I stand for. This is what I… — Norman Braman Copy Share Image
If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple… — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image
Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
I'm way past the idea of using ideology or political view as a gauge of human character. I simply don't believe it.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Caricatures are an important part of our culture of debate. They should defuse political spats through humor and irony. It is about… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity -… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I don't write political stuff. I'm sure I've made attempts, but I don't tend to write very topical things, either. I admire… — Kyle Mooney Copy Share Image
Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't… — Hans Fallada Copy Share Image
Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
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