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So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.
I'm not very comfortable being an actorvist so to get to do something that I believe in is a much more comfortable way for me to be political.
The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment.
He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]
I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.
The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.
Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.
Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.
I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.
The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters.
Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.
Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.
After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road.
It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.
The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.
In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.
The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.
My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.
Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.
We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.