What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who...

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

We must have public officials who will stand up and tell the people exactly what they think… Our failure in recent years has not been the failure of the people to meet the challenges placed...

What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always,whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extremethat it is a society in the measure...

You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you’re the one holding the pen.

How can I help being a humbug. . .when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can’t be done?

Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos.””To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.””Political theory would be fine in a perfect...

If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys.

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones

the path of politics should be cleared with the sword of the constitution

I became convinced that the advanced industrial countries, through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the World Bank, were not only not doing all that they could...

Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of Office. I don’t know how many of you noticed this, but the wording of the Oath of Office is written...

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than “politicians” think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting...

The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.

The world is already yours – why try to conquer it?

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Peace isn’t the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and people…

other side” is wrong. These proclamations appear in many forms, from scathing letters to the editor to frothing-at-the-mouth comments on blogs and internet videos. Although expression and debate are vital parts of policymaking, political speech...

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important – a sense of humour, but Johnson himself will provide many other...

I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And the higher the pretensions of such power, the more...

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states “accountable” for their education performance…In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn’t subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

History has taught us that often lies serve her better than the truth, for man is sluggish and has to be led through the desert for forty years before each step in his development. And...

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can’t imagine someone else’s point of view.

Ball tempering is common in Cricket. Rigging is common in Elections. Whats the big deal? — Najumi Sethi

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.

His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.

One doesn’t commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.

Democracy is the best revenge.

I am completely opposed to the British National Party; I couldn’t possibly support people who find fluorescent yellow flyers appealing.

New Rule: If we want to find a place to cut government waste, we must start with the DEA rubber duck. Yes, on the DEA’s website you can buy a rubber ducky with a DEA...

As a nation the people of this lovely island called Britain, are at the point where even one honest politician could give us a collective and conceptual nervous breakdown.

The stakes involved in Washington policy debates are often so high– whether we send our young men and women to war; whether we allow stem cell research to go forward– that even small differences in...

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.

The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a tactful publican, it has as few opinions as possible. Many liberals suspect passionate convictions are latently authoritarian. But...

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men. The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is...

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Decisions to cut aid for the terminally ill, for the elderly, for dependent children, for food stamps, even school lunches, are being made by men with full stomachs who live in comfortable houses with two...

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.

That the regime was willing to hit itts chief political constituency in the pocket was a clear sign of desperation.