Quotes of: Political-work Keyword

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

Stockwell Day

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

Wendell Willkie

Sentimentality was used because other political avenues were closed, and authors hoped that through it they could bring about a political change that would fulfill the egalitarian promises of the Revolution. Real political venues were unavailable, so...

Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism

While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary ...

The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism

Americans tend to use "nation" as a synonym for "country." But political scientists and historians, as well as many Europeans, tend to use the term for a much more specific phenomenon: a group of people who feel they belong together, whether they hav...

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

The actual results of political diplomacy can openly be seen in critical moments. Turkey can insist on leading a very successful foreign policy, however, the acceptance of the fact of the Armenian Genocide by any influential global organization evide...

Elmar Hussein

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation. To concern yourself with surface political confli...

William S. Burroughs

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The History of Freedom

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

Robert Cray

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

Eric Alterman

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

James McGreevey

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

Michael Franti

Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.

Adam Michnik

Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution.

Ritual, Politics, and Power

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.

Marxism And Politics

The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings

Political leaders are a reflection of our society.

Open The Windows: To the World aound You

What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television.

Kevin Spacey

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

Rose Bird

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

Roger Ebert