Quotes of: Politic Keyword

In neo-classical economic theory, it is claimed without evidence that people are basically self-seeking, that they want above all the satisfaction of their material desires: what economists call "maximising utility". The ultimate objective of mankind...

The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century

The mental health system is filled with survivors of prolonged, repeated childhood trauma. This is true even though most people who have been abused in childhood never come to psychiatric attention. To the extent that these people recover, they do so...

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

It can also be useful to politics, enabling that science to discover how much of it is no more than verbal construction, myth, literary tops. Politics, like literature, must above all know itself and distrust itself. As a final observation, I should ...

The Uses of Literature

The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of them fits that description. McMartin certainly comes close. But a careful examination of the evidence presented at trial d...

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

If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.

The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture

In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men seldom surpass the standard of the most ordinary individuals.

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

She had picked up life where she had left off... and hoped that would be enough to get the universe to politely overlook her.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

Your conversations are the beginning of your connections; be careful of your communications. Talk politely to strangers; you have no knowledge about how many of them will become your close friends forever!

Daily Drive 365

Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.

Democracy: An American Novel

In politics, I don’t know which came first, the rubber chicken policies, or the eggheadedness.

The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives

Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.

Every Man Dies Alone

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

Ender's Game

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Ender's Game

The problem is never the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Think before you rush into action.

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

People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be....Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.

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

There are situations where the best solution still doesn't make everyone happy. The trick is understanding what's best.

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

Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

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

I have come to the conclusion that some people come in your life as blessings, others come in your life as lessons.

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

Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.

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

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

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