True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
I don't think we can depend on Congress. In the American political system - we have been brought up to believe that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I understand why political leaders in the beginning want to be cheerleaders to generate optimism. But to admit that they didn't understand… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I still think people like to hear from someone's heart and how they really feel than the old political rhetoric trying to… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
My sermon for us Americans would be to construct the kind of institutions of mutuality and social cooperation that don't leave 15… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
The day after the Republican convention ended, there was another political bomb that was dropped on the U.S. presidential election [2016] from… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I am interested in the political economy of institutional power relationships in transition. The question is one of "reconstructive" communities as a… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
The so-called resistance is very broad and we don't agree on everything, but there's a moment of opportunity when people are paying… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on… — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
Whatever your political leanings, it is disturbing that federal authorities were spying on emails and other private communications between President Donald Trump… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're… — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through… — Priscilla Smith Robertson Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If, as we decided in Munich, there will be a cessation of hostilities and humanitarian assistance can flow into Syria - then… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We really are going to have to answer the cries of everyday women and men who are calling out for elected leaders… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Some soldier will say, 'You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I'm glad you came all the way… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Courts in America seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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