Quotes of: Political-speech Keyword

But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest gr...

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, ...

Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it a useful shibboleth for showing their fealty fiscal discipline, even as they vote to ratify the ...

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism

He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an ideology that supports the survival of the fittest, with all of its dire complications. Byran was able t...

Red Letter Christians: A Christian's Guide to Faith and Politics, a Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics

What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations as a whole — rather than narrowly abstract, concerned only with the immediate interpersonal relations...

Literary Theory: An Introduction

The self is constituted within a variety of arenas and in relation to multiple traditions. Self-hood, on this understanding, is both provisional and open-ended, and critically depends on the configuration of relationships between one’s own groups a...

Politics of Identity: Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemas of Difference

Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the FDA mostly handles everything else, including pet food and animal feed. Although this division o...

Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine

I think politics is deadly to write about, frankly. If you have a political agenda and you set out to write a novel to prove that, say, capitalism should crumble, then it's going to be a really bad novel. Very few people have been able to deal with p...

Donna Tartt

Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs, but, disembodied, she did not know the difference between thing and process, except as they func...

Galatea 2.2

And then Harry Potter had launched in to a speech that was inspiring, yet vague. A speech to the effect that Fred and George and Lee had tremendous potential if they could just learn to be weirder. To make people's live surreal, instead of just surpr...

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder.

The Conflation: Politics and Politrics Beyond the Ecstasy

When man lost touch with his humanity he had no reason to walk along the higher path.

The Conflation: Politics and Politrics Beyond the Ecstasy

The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.

God & Caesar: Christian Faith & Political Action

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to ol...

Nick Clegg

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

Mara Liasson

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

How to Be a Woman

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion