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“Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop gouverner' are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.”
Source: Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society
“Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.”
“Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.”
“Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.”
Source: Early Writings
“Political economy tends to see work in capitalist societies as divided between two spheres: wage labor, for which the paradigm is always factories, and domestic labor – housework, childcare – relegated mainly to women. The first is seen primarily as a matter of creating and maintaining physical objects. The second is probably best seen as a matter of creating and maintaining people and social relations.
[...] This makes it easier to see the two as fundamentally different sorts of activity, making it hard for us to recognize interpretive labor, for example, or most of what we usually think of as women’s work, as labor at all. To my mind it would probably be better to recognize it as the primary form of labor. Insofar as a clear distinction can be made here, it’s the care, energy, and labor directed at human beings that should be considered fundamental. The things we care most about – our loves, passions, rivalries, obsessions – are always other people; and in most societies that are not capitalist, it’s taken for granted that the manufacture of material goods is a subordinate moment in a larger process of fashioning people. In fact, I would argue that one of the most alienating aspects of capitalism is the fact that it forces us to pretend that it is the other way around, and that societies exist primarily to increase their output of things.”
Source: Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination
“Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had.”
Source: Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
“Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.”
Source: The Will Rogers book
“Political elections are not life and death.”
“Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.”
“Political experts are saying the reason John Kerry is doing so well is because he's 'electable.' Hey, so was Al Gore - in fact, he even got elected and it didn't help him at all.”
“Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.”
“Political fandom is much like entertainment fandom, many people invest money, emotions, and faith in a person they never met and foolishly expect that figure will always make them happy.”
“Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.”
“Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.”
“Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as
in moral truth and accountability they are.”
Source: The Future of Industrial Man
“Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.”
“Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.”
Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
“Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.”
Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
“Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.”
“Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.”
Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.”
“Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.”
“Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.”
“Political historian Barouth Regorab had likened the difference between a planetary government and the Galactic Senate to that between a rural community and a metropolis: “When a person depends upon their neighbor for assistance during the harvest—when strangers are few and familial ties bind the farmer to the freighter captain—the greatest danger is shunning or exile. Mollifying your peers becomes a matter of survival. You have an incentive to iron out differences, or if necessary to bury any radical beliefs that would put you at odds with your community.
“In a city of millions, however, a person may build a tailor-made community inside the larger organism. Anger your neighbor and you may move in with a friend. Become an outcast among your co-workers and you may take a job with a competitor. Diverse arts and philosophies may flourish without the flattening effect of more tight-knit communities, and differences may be celebrated. Yet a lack of common ties can also cause neighbors to see one another as rivals. Ideological opponents can be dismissed without need for engagement. And good people may slip through the cracks, lost in the chaos and written off as someone else’s problem.”
“Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.”
“Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes”
Source: Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Quiescence
“Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe.”
“Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.”
“Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.”
“Political Independece.. But these are days we shouldnot be celebrating really.
I don't see how a man who was falsely imprisoned
Make jolly of his way out of jail
Some races had taken advantage of others
And when the inferior races overtook the superior ones
The later sealed their battles with public holiday to make us never forget that they were superior to us and continue.
I believe that in taking such days serious.. We continue succumbing to their greatness..
If we couldn't avenge, why not rather move on like nothing ever happened before?
That's how humanit should be,
But they also gave us a Bible Damn..
To make us believe what they believed”
“Political indifference is closely linked to ethical depravity.”
Source: The Guiltless
“Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.”
“Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.”
“Political Islam is not a homogeneous bloc.”
“Political issues are too serious to be left only to politicians.”
“Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views.”
“Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.”
“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”
“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
“Political leaders are the reflection of our society.”
Source: Quantraz
“Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.”
“Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.”
“Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the words, but they have not learned the tune.”
Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
“Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.”
“Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.”
“Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.”
Source: The World As I See It
“Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.”
“Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.”