Quotes 361 till 380 of 439.
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The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 20 -
The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.
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The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
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The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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.
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
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There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.
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There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
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There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
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There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
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This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
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