“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
The idea of the Overton Window of using people on the political fringe to change the terms of acceptable debate, that's an… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
There are two strategies available in a partisan political environment for communities working for justice. You can join the Democratic Party -… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
One night I walked out of the church when the priest said that we should never have fought the Revolutionary war and… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The media, I think, have to be accountable for some of the misdirection that is put forward in politics in some of… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
I did not always agree, personally, on the positions that Bartlet, character from the West Wing, took and I argued against them… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
Whats different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily have any designs in being in politics for the rest of my life. I don't necessarily think that this… — Markos Moulitsas Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Protestants and Catholics have historically disagreed on the canon of the Old Testament but agreed on the canon of the New Testament.… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“We've got to simplify, pull back all these layers of supposed complexity , and get down to the essentials. If we want… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of… — Robert D Bullard Copy Share Image
In a sense, whites who were always sort of the unthinking majority who didn't think of themselves necessarily as one among many… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“To be political, to live in a polis, meant that everything was decided through words and persuasion and not through force and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community -… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I hate political films that have one particular message that they're trying to convey. I think propaganda is very dangerous, and it's… — Tamer El Said Copy Share Image
Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
