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  • The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be.

  • The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

    Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.89, Pluto Press
  • The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.

    Party   Views   Two  
    Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.348, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.

  • What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition.

    White   Broken   House  
    "Too Bad". www.wsj.com. June 2, 2007.
  • A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

  • A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

    Everybody's Political What's What? ch. 30 (1944)
  • I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

    Source: time.com
  • English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

    Party   Government   Two  
  • Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.

    Alexis De Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy In America -- Vol. 1”, p.394
  • The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

    Distance   Land   America  
  • I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

    Evil   Political   Social  
  • That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.

    Teaching   Men   Years  
    Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.47, VM eBooks
  • Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

    "American Voters Suffer Learned Helplessness" by Andrea Chalupa, bigthink.com. September 7, 2012.
  • Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

    Funny   Life   Sarcastic  
    Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)
  • All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

    Political   Height   Made  
  • We're in a political depression - a great political depression

    Party   Reality   History  
  • No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

    Life   Trust   Freedom  
  • Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men ... should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

    Humility   Men   Years  
  • Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

  • History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.

    John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)
  • Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine like those of Kant or Mill. You could characterize this political good as the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another: the duty to give citizens public reasons for one's political actions.

    Interview with Bernard G. Prusak, www.commonwealmagazine.org. September 25, 1998.
  • It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

    Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1969). “Radhakrishnan Reader: An Anthology: Selections from the World-famous Philosopher-statesman's 40 and Odd Books Written Over a Period of 60 Years”
  • Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  • Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.

    "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.
  • Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

  • I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay and The Rebel. I was an eighteen-year-old kid. I hated myself. I hated my life. I thought nobody wanted me.

    Reading   Kids   Years  
    Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
  • There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost.

    "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.
  • The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

    William Jennings Bryan (1896). “The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896”
  • Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

    Party   Men   Thinking  
    Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.96, Univ of California Press
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