Quotes 321 till 340 of 439.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.
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The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
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The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
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The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.
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The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
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The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a political movie from video on demand, remember that it is the Supreme Court's decision in 'Citizens United' that guarantees you the right to do so.
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The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
Source: On War (1832)
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