War is young men dying and old men talking

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

People conjugate to the present; politics to other tenses. (Peuple conjugue au présent; – Politique aux autres temps.)

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

I’m an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

I am suprised to a mad extent that people who claim to be intelligent and truth seeking go to church, hear their religious leaders say something, and without vetting it to a reasonable extent swallow...

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.

Corporate greed controls political will.

The prize won is only a token; the absolute prize is the positive change your work has made in the communities and across borders.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for...

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

culture” driven societies; and gentlemen, that is not what the world can afford !!

Anarchists have a ‘bad name’ in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists–there have been none–but because the one thing holders of power fear is that they personally should...

The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as ‘Fat Man and Little Boy.’) And a river...

Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Here we introduce the nation’s first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history’s first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western Union’s man was one Rutherford B....

I often ask myself, ‘Who would Jesus vote for?’ Then I start to think that he wouldn’t vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and...

I’ll give you a treat to get in your cage. I’m rewarding you for punishing you. Who am I? If you guessed either dog catcher or politician you are correct.

If I were to be elected World Leader someday, I’d wear an outfit made of Band-Aids, as a symbolic gesture of sticking together, healing, and the blood soon to be spilt.

I had a dream about you. You were in the oil business, and I sold icy roads for a living. You didn’t understand who’d buy such a thing, and I said you didn’t understand how...

His breath smelled like defeat. And dick—mine, which incidentally smelled like his asshole. Ah, but that’s just politics.

I’m not a carrot cake kind of guy. But so what? Don’t push your political agenda on me, pal.

Five GOP representative candidates this session have shocked me to my soul at how blatant they have trivialized rape. My prayers were answered in their defeat!

They’re called ‘facts’, and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don’t care at all what you think of my motives.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it will always be...

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a...

Conversations about politics can give you the somewhat errant impression that you can make a difference to people’s lives by talking about what others should be doing.

How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of humiliation! How adroit to bus poor black youngsters into poor white neighborhoods, in a violent...

Hate. The word is thrown around as uselessly and as often as love is, and is used as a means in which to accuse and inflict damage; the weak-in-argument (weak in general) use it to...

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my...

Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe.In South...

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

When I’m out of politics I’m going to run a business, it’ll be called rent-a-spine

It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly...

It’s all rather political, mourning is.

L’œuvre est une expression de ce qu’est l’homme, de ce qu’il sent, de ce en quoi il croit. Si elle se perpétue et si elle se développe, ce n’est pas tant à cause de l’homme...

,Será justo abandonar a la patria en estos momentos solemnes en que va a necesitar de toda la abnegación de sus hijos los humildes para que la salven, para que no la dejen caer de...

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind–but he must get there...

Unwed white girls who became pregnant in the postwar years were considered psychologically disturbed but treatable, whereas their black counterparts were presumed to be biologically hypersexual and deviant. Historian Rickie Solinger demonstrates that in the...

The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.

celebration.