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From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those…
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Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
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[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and…
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[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are…
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In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized…
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Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.
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It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.
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It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political…
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If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must…
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In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized…
— Charles Edward Merriam
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Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.
— Mary Brave Bird
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It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet:…
— Naomi Klein
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There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of…
— Harold Pinter
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Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political…
— Lewis Hyde
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As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from…
— Wendell Berry
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The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in…
— Bernie Sanders
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If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as…
— Hooman Majd
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