Average Quote by Walter Lippmann

"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too…

— Doris Lessing

“The political reform is important, but no reform will be greater than promoting popular awareness.”

— Victor Bello Accioly

“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”

— Carter Heyward

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

— E. W. Howe

“There are times when every act, no matter how private or unconscious, becomes political. Whom you live with, how you wear your hair, whether…

— Renata Adler

“What if an ordinary person cannot make a difference without talking about politics, without letting political concerns have their due, without feeling alarm, without…

— Nina Eliasoph

“(O)n a whole range of issues, there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the current political…

— Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed introduction to Censored 2013

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging…

— Margaret Case Harriman

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

— Walter Lippmann

The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the…

— Ernst Junger

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal…

— Tom Robbins