The state can’t give you freedom, and the state can’t take it away. You’reborn with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something youassume, then you wait for someone to try to take...

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

It is through vision that innovation is conceived;through will power it is then materialized.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

Oh, would thatI had died the way the Sikh did! I can not go forward. I shallnot submit to being made to see more clearly than I do. Yet, ifI turn back I am self-confessed...

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression...

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.

Maybe that would be less crucial under Obama, Podesta thought, because Obama’s approach was so intellectual. He compared Obama to Spock from Star Trek. The president-elect wanted to put his own ideas to work. He...

It is more pleasant and useful to undertake the experience of revolution than to write about it.

Having a reason for those reasons can not be a reason for those reasons you are having for those reasons.

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members – among them the need...

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

Small conspiracies fail and large conspiracies are betrayed.

In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with the Blair/Orwell distinction) congratulates them on their forceful use of tautology:‘Orwell belonged to the category of writers who write.’...

I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.

In neo-classical economic theory, it is claimed without evidence that people are basically self-seeking, that they want above all the satisfaction of their material desires: what economists call “maximising utility”. The ultimate objective of mankind...

If you hope for any sort of dialogue and unity with all factions on the vaguely leftist or radical side of politics, you must cease from silly verbal abuse. If you don’t want it, then...

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Otis, on the other hand, didn’t miss home a bit. He had always hated the stairs in our house in Massachusetts. He was now five years old and very large for a golden retriever. I...

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek military solutions. Terrorism is a political problem. Seek political solutions. Diplomacy works.

For the most part, the evidence shows that individual Americans do not care a great deal about politics and are rather poorly informed, unstable in their views, and not much interested in participating in the...

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion and chaos, are in fact defending their political prestige and the economic interests...

DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good and slavery is bad.BIAS: predeliction for a particular dogma. For example, the feminist bias is that women are...

I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.

Everyone says “i will never” and “one should never” but, actually, “No one can Resist Miss-using Power (at-least ones) when they have it”.

Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be reliably predicted, the means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to...

There are pockets of wealth in this country. Mostly those pockets are in the politicians’ pants.

What’s the face of a coward? The back of his head as he runs from the battle

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

The only problem with politicians taking two week vacations every year is it’s about 50 weeks too short.

Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. Next time, go all out and write in Lucifer on the ballot.

If your favorite politician got ran over by a bus, I’d express my condolences by telling you I know how you feel. Why just the other day I ran over a rat, and I felt...

I want to write a book called Kissing Kissinger. It won’t be about kissing, Kissinger, or even politics. It’ll be about radiator fluid, and all the health benefits you can enjoy from chugging it.

I’m a gopher. If I see something I want, I go for it, Orafoura said .And I’m a shepherd. If I see a sheep I like, I fuck it, I replied. I mean I would,...

If you’re doing it right, love takes everything you’ve got—just like a politician.

I had eggs for breakfast. I ate them off the hood of a politician’s car, after I threw them there.

I thought the movie was too short to pay for, and too long to be free. But I’d watch it again, if I were wearing a blindfold and stuffed in the trunk of a car....

I could rant about political corruption until I’m blue in the face, but most people would just call me a Smurf and move on. My balls are also blue, but that is another subject, and...

I had a dream about you. We were both surrounded by poor people, but there was one big difference—I was poor, but you were rich. That’s why I was shocked when you tried to rob...

In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace written on paper, or were they written on the hearts of men? And...

Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, “I will not hit you if you do not hit me”; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both...

I’d used people’s stories and their lives to bolster my political arguments for changing welfare. Now, however, I was running into the people themselves, and I realized that using anyone’s tragedy for political gain was...

Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don’t believe I am any of them…

Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any reference to George Bush, people only nod to Berlusconi, saying”,”We...

We have put our words on steroids and amped the language up so high that unless we communicate in overdrive and hyperbole, we believe–perhaps correctly–that nobody will hear us. In the process, we’ve sacrificed nuance...