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I had a dream my house was on fire, and I tried to rescue all the cats—and none of the politicians. You can burn my house, but don’t you dare burn my coffee.

—Jarod Kintz

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[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s mood.

—George Packer

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The love between a man and an animal is a sacred thing. Well, at least it was, until the politicians started answering to the lobbyists and not the people.

—Jarod Kintz

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I had a dream about you. I was a chef and you were a buffet. The people were starving, children were dying of malnutrition, and all the politicians tried feeding them rhetoric. I suggested we...

—Jarod Kintz

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The lake I live by has dried up after years of selling bottled water from my back yard. So to encourage my neighbors to get excited about this development, I correctly pointed out that my...

—Jarod Kintz

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It’s almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns ‘privately with the administration.’ That’s just a small sliver of...

—Glenn Greenwald

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To present their agendas as even remotely credible is a sad reflection on the state of Canadian politics today.

—George Read

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[M]rs. Miniver was beginning to feel more than a little weary of exchanging ideas (especially political ones) and of hearing other people exchange theirs. It’s all very well, she reflected, when the ideas have had...

—Jan Struther

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The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of...

—Frank Herbert

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We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn’t fear the voices of people. And yet they do.

—George W.

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Us vs Them” mentality; because you are constantly defending yourself. And in fighting, there’s no time for freedom.

—Jason Daniel

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Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned “noble lie” ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

—Christina Hoff

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It is sad and shocking to think that victory and the lives of thousands of men are pawns to the “fear of They,” and the writings of a group of unprincipled reporters, and weak-kneed congressmen.

—George S. Patton

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It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

—John Pilger

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Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

—Jon Meacham

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What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we’re fearful, we become divided. When we’re courageous and have good leadership, we unite.

—Keith Ellison

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

—James Madison

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The American people, and the citizens of all Western nations, have the right to know about every single thing their representatives do on their behalf. After all, elected officials are merely representing those who hold...

—James Morcan

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Beliefs divide us; values unite us.” Godless – Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs.

—Jeff Rasley

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Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

—Norman G.

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Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

—Marian Wright

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Finally, Christians were accused of being subversive, for they refused to worship the emperor and thus destroyed the very fiber of society. The apologists answered that it was true that they refused to worship the...

—Justo L.

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Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless.

—Nayan Chanda

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By connecting Oswald to several parts of the JFK–Almeida coup plan, those working for Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli could ensure that when Oswald surfaced as the main suspect, the CIA and other agencies would have...

—Lamar Waldron

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Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that...

—Jeffrey Tucker

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There is a sort of mental treasonThat smothers dreams outside of reason

—Mike Corbett

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In this, then, lies their power of understanding–understanding, without words, what is authentic or inauthentic. Thus it was the grimaces, the histrionisms, the false gestures and, above all, the false tones and cadences of the...

—Oliver Sacks

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Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.

—Liz Long

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Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such...

—Kurt Vonnegut

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People Power is too often an inverted fairy story – the triumph of innocence coming at the start and the Ugly Sisters of intrigue and ambition coming on stage in triumph for the final curtain.

—Mark Almond

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The first duty of a man is to think for himself

—José Martí

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…kuota atau sayap wanita adalah seperti tongkat. Ia membantu anda bangun tetapi jika anda mahu berlari, anda perlu membuang tongkat tersebut.

—Ooi Kok

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All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.

—Luke Montgomery

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During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by ‘preventing worse language.’ In the military it would be...

—John Frohnmayer

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The new post-Saddam Iraq had no secular heros.

—Patrick Cockburn

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When it comes to politics, you don’t get that immediate effect,

—Nancy Snow

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The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked.

—Nina Power

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Voters have soaked up a noggin full of negativity over the last twenty years, with an economy we had to bring back from collapse, plus terrorist attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don’t...

—Peter Prasad

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After Political independence, Africans needed mental freedom for them to advocate for economical independence

—Nguvi McKensey

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La izquierda y la derecha unidas jamás serán vencidas.

—Nicanor Parra

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Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be...

—Niccolò Machiavelli

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In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into...

—Thomas Paine

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Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician’s spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

—Tariq Ali

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I am naïve and I have fucked up but I tell you something else. I believe in change. I don’t mind getting my hands dirty because my hands are dirty already. I don’t mind giving...

—Russell Brand

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Anyone who has lived here for long enough has seen it all before: opposing sides of the political spectrum ferociously criticising each other, getting hot under the collar about this and that, bringing up all...

—Tobias Jones

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It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.

—Sean S.

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Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

—Winston S.

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Don’t let them tell us stories

—Albert Camus

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We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is deemed beyond the sphere of the political, and it is illusory to expect...

—Slavoj Žižek

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I’m a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don’t you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of “divisive” in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of...

—Ann Coulter

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