Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“The harder a government, such as a dictatorship, tries to maintain monetary policy autonomy, the more it must either limit the movement… — Janet M. Tavakoli Copy Share Image
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“If three men couldn’t see eye to eye on who among them was and was not the real Jesus, your chances of… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
One of my rules is I generally don't talk to elected officials. It's kind of a firewall. I'll talk to staff if… — Markos Moulitsas Copy Share Image
The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“In the United States, the government has abrogated its responsibilities to safeguard the food supply of its citizens. The biotech companies do… — Michael R. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Freed slaves returned to Africa settled in a section of what was known as the “Pepper Coast” and on July 26, 1847,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“Almost all modern governments are highly conscious of what journalism calls ‘world opinion.’ For sound reasons, mostly of an economic nature, they… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
Empty political space will be filled by extremists unless the United States and its allies build strong local forces that can suppress… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
“What is even more striking than the negational character of this political culture is the absence of robust and constructive affirmations. Vibrant… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
While I'd been in school, I had a nagging thought that it'd be so much easier to quit all this higher education… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
I want politicians to be held to account for their politics and their principles, or lack of them, but I find it… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If democracy is to once again inspire a populist politics, it is crucial to develop a number of social movements in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science:… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
We've gotta cut this country down to size and people here need to find out what it's like what we've done to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think the press has done a very good job dealing with government spending.The Defense Department with the $9,500 toilet seat,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Resistance to change in the mental health system comes disguised as protection of civil liberties and freedom of speech. As a result,… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“The Washington regime’s leading internal thesis-which has not changed since 1933-is that Americans must be “tolerant” of the alien elements (which now… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: And I… — Bible Copy Share Image
“Here I must add that, in each social crisis, of all scaffolds, the political one is the most abominable, the most fatal,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I don't understand an age where meanings dissolve and all we're left with are names that last for a minute, where symbols… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
“It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“But postmortems offering rational explanations for how a pussy-grabbing goblin managed to gain the White House over an experienced woman have mostly… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the… — Ulysses S Grant Copy Share Image
Regardless of their politics, the vast majority of the people I meet, when they can speak and listen and act of their… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image