In my childhood, and particularly when I take the responsibility, I already have sort of keen desire, we must change our system.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost… — Tim Soutphommasane Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Most people are oblivious to F.A. Hayek's insight that the critical information needed to run an economy - or even 15 percent… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
The fact is that there's hundreds of thousands of incredibly motivated, active political partisans working on the blogs. These people generate buzz,… — Markos Moulitsas Copy Share Image
The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to… — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories -… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, given the rules of the American political game, people who try to participate by self-righteously refusing to identify with one or… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I really look at my life before kids and after kids and before I was more - not narcissistic - but I… — Raine Maida Copy Share Image
The amplification of our diverse literary voices is a political act of resistance. Our lives are important, too. Our lives should be… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in Turkey is a non-uniformed authoritarian regime led by a politician, Tayyip Erdogan, who has allowed power to… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is the possibility that these troops will be used against us if we are victorious. There is also the possibility that… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned from 22 July is that we have to take seriously all those people who take part in… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
I wasn't political in 1984, but I did have a friend in Winnemucca who was a 'Southern Democrat.' He was raised in… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
In 1973, I was shown a graphic of how dependent the United States was on nonrenewable resources like oil and coal and… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
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