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Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.
I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.
I think race and racism is probably the most studied social, economic, and political phenomenon in this country, but it's also the least understood.
Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.
I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.
It is important for the club to find a balance in a world driven by economic and political needs. This club usually does that [on leaving Liverpool]
We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.
When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.
There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.
In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.
We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.
It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews
With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.
...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.
Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.
We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.
Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.
People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.
The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.
I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.
Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.
I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?
If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that
But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.
...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!
The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.
Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.
The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.
What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.
I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.
The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.
Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.
The National Federation of Republican Women has a long history of helping bring women into the political process while promoting the Republican cause.
I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.
Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.
When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.
If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.
America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.
It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.