The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.
I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, ...
Politics is intensely physical: your hands touch, clasp and hold, and your eyes are always reaching for contact. None of this came naturally to me. I'd always put my trust in words and let the words do the work, but in politics, the real message is p...
Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
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 two causes. The first is natural, be...
[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological position can never be really successful until it is naturalized, and it cannot be naturalized w...
Grammar is politics by other means.
Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.
That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.
The public's abiding fascination with flaying saucers, C.G. Jung suggests, 'may be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to fear of the apparently insoluble political situation in the world that may lead at any moment to catastrophe. At such tim...
Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly politically correct western Christian democracies, the latter is occurring. It should not be forgotten that nature will correct t...
Is it possible that we ‘hate’ politics because we have forgotten its specific and limited nature, its overwhelming value, and also its innate fragility? Could it be that our expectations are so high that politics appears almost destined to disapp...
The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
