“There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“There’s no English equivalent for silovik. It doesn’t translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the… — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The power of the intelligentsia is demonstrated not only by their ability to create a general climate of opinion that strikes fear… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“All of human civilization... is basically a result of immortality projects: the cities and governments and structures and authorities in places today… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Sometimes politics is viewed as a boxing match. So, let's look at movies of last year. You know, you prepare for match… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
“When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present passions be succeeded by calm reflection, or when those, who,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The social and political climate came from discussions about how we could find conflict in the wake of a 100-year-long war ending.… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at… — Jack Reed Copy Share Image
Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
All political order presupposes a pre-political order, a sense that people belong together. And then, of course, they might seek a contract… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making.… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our mother was killed for something she did not do. She was taken away from us. That's as personal as it can… — Robert Meeropol Copy Share Image
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy): A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where… — Morgan Philpot Copy Share Image
How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“...We would see people wanting to work, not for pennies on the dollar, or to try and keep up with inflation, but… — D.M. Shiro Copy Share Image
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Addressing politics in my music' is such a phrase, a sentence on paper, that I hate. That's not really me because at… — Amine Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Olympic games are a good place to bring up any political issues because it should be about… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
“As evil has attempted to take control, political correctness has become a higher value in the USA than righteousness and truth. Right… — Paul Wilbur Copy Share Image
There is one great truth in western politics that I have been able to see, and that is this: The more left… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Given the rapid rate of change, the old paradigm of one-off education followed by a career will no longer work: life-long learning… — Alain Dehaze Copy Share Image
“Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon.… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police. Truth, beauty and goodness are not mysterious, they… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We no longer live in a mass-media world with a few centralized choke points with just a few editors in charge, operated… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
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