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…Bin Laden’s quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck.” “If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put...

—Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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The right to regulate the use of wealth in the public interest is universally admitted. Let us admit also the right to regulate the terms and conditions of labor, which is the chief element of...

—Theodore Roosevelt

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

—Ayn Rand

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Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.

—R. J.

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People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control.

—Aysha Taryam

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Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.

—Sandra Chami

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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those...

—Adam Smith

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Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

—Richard Henry

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We’re a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it’s misdirected.

—Bill Maher

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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

—Tony Benn

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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

—Barack Obama

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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

—Robert E. Howard

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…Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true....

—Brandon Sanderson

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In the evening [the Iraqi interim governor of Maysan province] asked me for fifty dollars to repair his windows, which had been destroyed in a recent demonstration. Although he was the governor, his salary was...

—Rory Stewart

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

—Charles de Gaulle

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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...

—Stacy Schiff

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Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

—Carl Schmitt

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

—Thomas Jefferson

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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...

—Audre Lorde

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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.

—Vladimir Ilich

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

—Auliq Ice

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We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why...

—Wendell Berry

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Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis, without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply ‘a person indifferent to public affairs.’ Obviously, there is something wanting in the apolitical personality. But we have also...

—Christopher Hitchens

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It’s sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not...

—Sharad Vivek

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It doesn’t take a literary detective, scanning the passage above, to notice that he is partly saying of Orwell what Orwell actually says about Gissing. This half-buried resentment can be further noticed when Williams turns...

—Christopher Hitchens

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There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.

—Toba Beta

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Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal, once accomplished. This was one of the great lies of communism. Likewise, capitalism...

—Carne Ross

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And the so-called ‘political process’ is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

—Edward Abbey

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I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me… Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

—David Crockett

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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has...

—H.L. Mencken

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All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

—Isaac Asimov

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In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in...

—Criss Jami

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A less well known impact of immigrant populations is the increase that destination states gain in Congress where apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is calculated on the basis of a state’s entire...

—Edward S.

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A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn’t only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you’re burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad...

—George Carlin

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Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?

—Hirobumi Ito

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It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something’s said by a stranger I’ve been randomly thrown into contact with, and I want to say, “Listen. I’m with you on...

—David Sedaris

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Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

—Eric Hoffer

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If you want people to be Good to you then stop being Good to them.

—honeya

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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

—Hannah Arendt

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Leaders of all systems (Capitalism, Communism, etc.) in History claimed to serve the people. All Systems would work if the leaders meant it!

—Francis Mont

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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look...

—Edgar D.

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The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow ‘Operation Re-elect Bush’ doesn’t seem to be popular.

—Jay Leno

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I once watched several criminals engage in an organized argument, while an audience of supporters cheered them on, but I was so disgusted that I had to turn off the political debate.

—Jarod Kintz

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It’s not true I think all politicians are morons. Morons are far too intelligent to be politicians.

—Jarod Kintz

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Politician you out.

—Jarod Kintz

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The only thing politicians serve is their own interest. Public servant has morphed into private serpent.

—Jarod Kintz

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Guns don’t kill people. Politicians with sharp tongues do.

—Jarod Kintz

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The Nike Swoosh looks like a crowbar used to pry apart tight wallets. In other words, it looks like a politician’s smile.

—Jarod Kintz

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Joe is 3/4ths of a joke. 75% of politicians are jokes too, only the punchlines are the voters, and that kind of humor I just don’t find funny.

—Jarod Kintz

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I believe in love like a flower bud might believe in Buddha. But, then, I’m a romantic, and you know that because in the last presidential election I voted for Grilled Cheese Sandwich.

—Jarod Kintz

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