Accessible Quote by Michael Sandel

The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual.…

— Terence McKenna

Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.

— Gad Saad

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

— George McGovern

Responsibility, in order to be reasonable, must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party, and in order to be effectual,…

— Alexander Hamilton

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

— Dorothy Nevill

There are nice political formulations that can apply to everyone and to nobody. I wouldn't know how I could be more reserved in my…

— Horst Seehofer

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political willof others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own…

— Michel Foucault

One of the difficulties of politics is that politicians are shocked by those who are really prepared to let their thinking reach any conclusion.…

— Richard Crossman

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There…

— Peter Singer

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

— Barbara Jordan