Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics is any longer capable of dealing with it. Medico-sociological banalities on the 'pathology of housing pro...
...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn't mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our problems. It doesn't mean taking to the streets, throwing bricks through the window at the Bank of Am...
We to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they . Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical, ill-considered criticism. It's wo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Smug-faced punk kid acts like he's better than everyone…oh look at me I'm so polite… please.
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.
The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness.
Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.
One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.
His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.
...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.
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.
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.
If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.
Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can.
We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
