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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
I try not to get political, I don't want to get religious, I don't want to get controversial, I just want to have a show that relates to everybody.
The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.
Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.
If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.
There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.
I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.
For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.
It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.
When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.
The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.
Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions
I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.
Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.
You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.
He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.
I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these great generational upheavals that's coming.
Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.
A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.
If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.
When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.
Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.
Working on a studio picture, I can't help but be aware of all the political stuff that's going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.
Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.
To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.
Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order.
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.