If I love freedom above all else, then any commitment becomes a metaphor, a symbol. This touches on the difference between the forest fleer and the partisan:this distinction is not qualitative but essential in nature....

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—according to the fashion—but for...

When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with...

And he gave it for his opinion, “that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better...

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

I have two enemies in all the world, Two twins, inseparably fused:The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth – that man would not have attained the possible unless time and...

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people’s interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik program has created a public spectacle that even Disney and von Braun...

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn’t how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself...

Facing a deteriorating economy and a weakening hold over the populace, the Iraqi state under Saddam Hussein opted to revitalize tribal leaders and conservative practices as a means of stabilizing state power; those conservative practices...

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

vista dos autos”, paralisando a análise do caso.

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through...

Mr. President; give me back my country. Allow people to have their humanity. If you do not do this, history will never absolve you!

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.

The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly,...

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term ‘conservatism’ can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of...

general population” that so concerned the Secretary.

Why am I a socialist? Simple: Because I believe in freedom.

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

I had this terrible nightmare; I dreamt I was a politician and they were dragging me off to parliament

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn’t matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all...

What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian ‘il n’y a pas de rapport …’: if, for Lacan, there is no sexual relationship, then, for Marxism proper, there is no relationship...

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

A society which is predominantly Christian will propagate Christianity: One which is not, will not. We have, in the long run, little either to hope or to fear from government.

It’s August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

Rising demand for oil exposed Europe, and later America, to oil shocks – serious interruptions in supply. Like a pebble tossed into a pond, an oil shock creats ripples, or effects, felt everywhere.Oil shocks have...

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

I call it treason against rock ‘n’ roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. … When I was a kid and my parents started talking about...

Political leaders are a reflection of our society.

continue his negative politics.

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can’t take anything, you won’t get anything, and if...

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don’t mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy...

Just because I like to suck cock doesn’t make me any less American than Jesse Helms.

You know what it’s like—you see someone on the train screaming awful, racist things and think, ‘How can I protect this person’s right to free speech?

Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact…

The President was trapped – and with nearly every president, it had come about from his own words. Presidential promises and statements… The people had this annoying way of remembering them. And even if they...

That’s just how white folks will do you. It wasn’t merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness...

Politics is always in the background when you consider to withdraw from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. We had an actual shortage, and it was in response to that and also to high prices that they...

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.