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The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be free from Austria.
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.
Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.
We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.
Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.
When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.
Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.
Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.
Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.
I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.
Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.
Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.
I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.
During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.
To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.
I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.
Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.
If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something that no one can deny.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose.
I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies.
Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.
If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'
It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.
History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.