Quotes of: Partisan-politics Keyword

Apocalyptic saucer cults have started to spring up all over America. One small group, which has been receiving messages from outer space via Lake City housewife Mrs. Marian Keech, becomes the subject of a research team led by psychologist Leon Festin...

Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America

An undergraduate researching the "witch hunt" cases asked for evidence that there had been more than one hundred cases, noting that the major lists of such cases added up to about fifty. There was no reply that provided documentation to support the c...

The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children

Fellow-feeling. . .is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Neither our national nor our local civic life can be what it should be unless it is marked by the fellow-feeling, the mutual kindness, the mutual respec...

Theodore Roosevelt

Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have developed mechanisms to deal with these pains, to overcome them somehow. Therapy, religion and spirituality, relationships, material succ...

David Foster Wallace

National Security Adviser: If this was political, we'd be having this conversation in October when there's an election bump. This is pure risk, based on deductive reasoning, inference, supposition, and the only human reporting you have is six years o...

Zero Dark Thirty

Smug-faced punk kid acts like he's better than everyone…oh look at me I'm so polite… please.

Coming Full Circle

The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying.

Cinema

The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness.

City of Stairs

Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

Death of a Red Heroine

In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

Distraction

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

The Dream of Scipio

...the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

In Defense Of Women

money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political conten­tion.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

The Eyre Affair

Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics