Political Quotes
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"If love had feathers and tasted like dog food, then I suggest you wear shoes with your banana pudding. (This statement also defines my political beliefs)."
"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."
"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."
"The love of my life has made me the happiest man ever. This ever-smiling man/mannequin is so happy because he’s got no brain, and in this way is identical to anyone who still rah-rahs for either a Republican or a Democrat."
"You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the state."
"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
"We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much."
"At the age of four, I wanted to be eight. At the age of eight, I wanted to be 16. At the age of 16, when I started driving, I wanted to be a Ferrari. And now, at the age of middle, I want to be Stalin’s mustache and matching armpit hair. But only for personal reasons, not political."
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."
"الوقت الإنساني لا يسير في شكل دائري بل يتقدم في خط مستقيم. من هنا، لا يمكن للإنسان أن يكون سعيداً لأن السعادة رغبة في التكرار."
ميلان كونديرا
"In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God."
"Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall."
"I think all artists struggle to represent the geometryof life in their own way, just like writers deal witharchetypes. There are only so many stories that you cantell, but an infinite number of storytellers."
"Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify pessimism. But some mysterious factor deep in the human psyche has produced a countervailing conviction that educating, organizing, uniting, and acting will make a difference."
"I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps."
"The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera."
"[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places."
"Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not...it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home but were packed off into exile. And there was no knowing where the living was easier – here or there. The one thing he might want to ask God for was to let him go home. But they wouldn't let him go home."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Conscience is the most sacred of all property in which our contemporary government of criminals aspires to plunder from our compatriots by the means of unconstitutional surveillance."
"Woe to any sheep that hunts with wolves - rjs"
"It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it."
"If your desire is for good, the people will be good."
"UNDIVIDEDI am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am forOne peaceful world for all,Where hate has been overcome by love,And everyone is guided only By their conscience."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"In America, Amazon competes with yahoo and Google by competing with a gas station. Imagine if every price in QT was the same, but had a for sale sign beside higher prices, and you'll have either Amazon or Craiglist."
"There is more for us to gain through love than hate."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes."
"Truth is commodity in political consumption."
"Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx."
"You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign."
"Let us remind our leaders that there is no place for personal interests in politics."
"There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying ourcountry?"
"For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced"
Henry A. Giroux, Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning
"We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind."
"Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied."
"Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan’s library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn’t finished coloring either one of them."
"In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for a doctorate in community organization. "Three of the questions were on the philosophy of and motivations of Saul Alinsky," writes Saul. "I answered two of them incorrectly."
"They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies."
"Ultimately amorality is immorality."
Roger M. Keesing, Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective
"Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"We have never been outnumbered, we have only been out organized."
"Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature."
"I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people."
"They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up."
"And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?"
"Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine"
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
"You must become your enemy to truly understand him."
"The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You'reborn with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something youassume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree towhich you resist is the degree to which you are free..."
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