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Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.
When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?
When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.
I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.
None of Ho Chi Minh's colleagues was as dedicated to the use of political struggle, psychological warfare, and diplomatic means as he was.
Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.
It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat.
The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.
A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.
Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!
Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.
Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.
Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.
It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.
It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations
I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.
I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.
There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.
There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.
As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.
Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.
The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God.
Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.