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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.
That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.
It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.
In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production
I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.
It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.
I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.
I think all movies are political. The ones that are not political intentionally are the worst, and have the worst politics, I think.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.
I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.
Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom -- nicely packaged, constantly updated... What political junkie could ask for more?
Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.
To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.