Quotes with trans-political

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  • Alexander Herzen All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Billy Bragg All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Wallace Stevens All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bhagat Singh All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Arianna Huffington America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Moyers America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Amiel Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Albert Einstein An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Leonard Cohen Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Bob Woodward Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • William S. Burroughs Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • W. H. Auden As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Angela Davis As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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