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I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.
There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.
Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.
All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
Innocent Americans are murdered, and what happens? An entire political party and an amendment to the US Constitution gets blamed.
The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well - wishers and benefactors.
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.
I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".
Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis
Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.
I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda.
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.
The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.