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“If we want to understand the distinctive constitution of Europe, we must go back to its religious foundations. For the moral beliefs which Christianity fostered still underpin civil society in Europe, the institutions that surround us.”

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Larry Siedentop

Limited information is available about Larry Siedentop, who was born in 1936 and belongs to an unknown profession category. more

“As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it.”

Source: Power Politics

“Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.”

Support Democracy Security Strategy Elsewhere

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994

“We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.”

People States Government Political Courses United Party United States Support Discipline Organization Destroying Submit Political Parties Orderly Weakening

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.”

People Care Views Reform Health Care Health Care Reform

Author:Jay Rockefeller

“The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.”

Should Kind Social Enjoy Rights Conditions Citizens Compact

Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!”

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

“What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.”

Knows Bigs Space

Author:David Hockney

“A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?”

Source: The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings

“Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.”

Two Whole Class Features Camps Hostile Distinctive Epoch Bourgeoisie Splitting Antagonism Manifestos Posse Communist Manifesto Splitting Up

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

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