The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.
Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the people who regard political correctness as the bogey of a little mind. What everyone does not believe in, as nearly as I can tell, is forgiveness.
True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two...
Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.
I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal ...
My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.
If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to ...
...Spinoza’s Conjecture:“Belief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and most people have a low tolerance for ambiguity. The scientific principle that a claim is untrue unless proven otherwise runs counter to our natural...
{ } was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the kindest and gentlest and most considerate and loving man I ever knew. His was a nature that yielded to no obstacles, that could not be moved nor turned aside by the allurements of plac...
For the movement was without scruples; she rolled towards her goal unconcernedly and deposed the corpses of the drowned in the windings of her course. Her course had many twists and windings; such was the law of her being. And whosoever could not fol...
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Politicians really worry about being politically correct.
I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
