Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It… — William Galston Copy Share Image
Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Injection of environmental and political perspectives in midstream of the science discussion cannot help the process of inquiry. I believe that persons… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society was founded at… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates-… — Daniel Seligman Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask: Is Putin a clever man? Yes, he's clever in his own way, when it comes to political intrigue, and… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
It's hard for us sophisticates to believe, but the people my parents worked for were good people. They were socialists of the… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
Just me existing, as an openly black transgender woman from a working-class background, thriving, is a political act. My brother always reminds… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Donald Trump said: I, Donald Trump, yes, I am going to take on the entire establishment. I'm going to take on the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many… — Afshin Molavi Copy Share Image
Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso Copy Share Image
I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What I think I represent is a patriot who has no political baggage behind him that has dedicated his entire life to… — Ricardo Sanchez Copy Share Image
Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I understand it's seductive to use green technologies, for people who want to believe it. But it is a hoax in the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly,… — Enoch Copy Share Image
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational,… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image