Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political...

Do you know the one about how politics is show business for the ugly? State politics is show business for ugly people who can’t remember their lines.

Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, the right, the principles and applications of moral distinction and valuation, for they are already caught, like it or...

If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop dreaming. And if people didn’t dream, they would be awake...

Eli Willard just looked at her for a long moment, and then he announced, ‘Lady of the Lake strikes iceberg in mid-Atlantic; 215 drown. New York City fire destroys 700 buildings. Japanese earthquake kills 12,000....

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the...

[Richard Bedford Bennett] was the richest Prime Minister and the only millionaire to hold office before Pierre Trudeau. His money obviously colored his thinking — colored it true blue — but he did not consider...

Here was a temporary solution. Parole would get Mofokeng and Mokoena out of jail as quickly as possible. Other details could be sorted out later. I accompanied Nyambi to Kroonstad jail at the end of...

Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn’t declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we’ve been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the...

The essence of Conservatism is fear: fear of what is not understood, fear of change, fear of the new, fear of what’s different, fear of the other.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

It’s not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It’s that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because once again they glued their...

El socialismo es un sistema que prefiere que los pobres sean más pobres con tal que los ricos sean menos ricos.

I am an anarch in space, a metahistorian in time. Hence I am committed to neither the political present nor tradition; I am blank and also open and potent in any direction. Dear old Dad,...

I learned that his earnestness didn’t diminish his intellectual capacity. I often think politics is a blender that pur ”©es everything. But he’s not pur ”©ed.

Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality...

If you wish to be a good Leader, have a all round personality. Read psychology, philosophy,history,anthropology, sociology, finest works, scriptures and even Law.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us,...

I wasnt political in order to be political

easily we make fun of any institution,while forget its need courage to digest those funny words sitting on that chair.

That was a very formidable woman,” Caisa said.”I seem to know a good many of those.””And you have a terrible habit of angering them,” she said.

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it....

The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing soundeconomic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit ofthis task the economist incurs the deadly enmity of all mountebanks and...

Apocalyptic saucer cults have started to spring up all over America. One small group, which has been receiving messages from outer space via Lake City housewife Mrs. Marian Keech, becomes the subject of a research...

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it’s a pretty good detour. Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134

Se joka jollakin tekosyyllä pitää itseään vapaana isänmaan asioiden hoitamisesta, koettaa siten vain läpikuultavalla verholla peittää omaa toimettomuuttaan ja kykenemättömyyttään.

Falar do passado é o mais fácil que há, está tudo escrito, é só repetir, papaguear, conferir pelos livros o que os alunos [escrevem] nos livros ou nas chamadas orais, ao passo que falar de...

I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this republic … It was my good fortune to encounter Thomas Paine’s works in...

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by ‘better’ such things as more...

We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after a sham trial and the case of Muammar Gaddafi, who killed after surrendering...

(“A Free Market in Education: The Answer to Prayer, And Other Issues”)No matter where you are on the issue, there is no solution to it within a government school context, only perpetual conflict. The answer...

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Nelson Mandela so much believed in education-because he knew it lead us (social free)to political views different from the ones he implemented.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people’s stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription...

Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.

Politics is applied anywhere, even in heaven.

The Poetic Assassin

What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before...

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one...

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: “Don’t think, don’t politicize, forget about the...

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Considering what is at stake politically, economically and technically for most organizations; usually justifying IT governance deployment based on one viewpoint narrows suitability and expected benefits.

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I’m post-tweeting today. I’ll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

Die größte Übeltat der protokollierten Menschheitsgeschichte ist der degoutante, mörderische Antigermanismus des 20. Jahrhunderts!

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can’t bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

As children we are taught, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!” As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another...