“What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.” CharacterActionPoliticalCertainPoliticsMoralVirtueProduceCitizensPoliticianAnxietyPerformancesFellowsAnxiousVirtuousDispositionStatesmenMoral Character Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.” YearsHas BeensMatterCharacterPoliticalDesireGivenNumbersSecretEmotionIssuesInfluenceConversationAnxietyWeaponsWingsGuiltIdeologyRadicalProportionUnconsciousOppositionAggressiveContinuingRight WingIntimidatedParalyzedAmbivalenceInsurgency Author:Ellen Willis
“What's happened in the United States is something that has already happened in Europe and that is that Islam is become 'otherised', it has become a kind of receptacle into which fears and anxieties about the political or economic situation, about the changing racial landscape of this country are being thrown.” KindCountryStatesPoliticalUnitedSituationUnited StatesHappenedEconomicAnxietyEuropeIslamLandscapeThrown Author:Reza Aslan
“As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.” WarPoliticalDemocracyModernMovementAuthorityAnxietyPressureAncientPolitical Movements Author:Robert Heilbroner
“Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.” ReasonPoliticalLevelsAnxietyAnnoyingAnnoyedHumiliating Author:Alain de Botton
“Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)” WellsKindPersonsFactsTogetherPoliticalArtistMoralCreativeEconomicAnxietyAll KindsThreatenedDestroyersCreative PersonDogmatismCreative Freedom Author:Rollo May
“Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general public looked upon relativity as indicative of the seemingly incomprehensible modern era, educated scientists despaired of ever understanding what Einstein had done, and political ideologues used the new theory to exploit public fears and anxieties-all of which opened a rift between science and the broader culture that continues to expand today.” DoneTodaySciencePoliticalUsedCultureUnderstandingModernTheoryAnxietyConceptsScientistFamiliarEducatedErasExploitsRelativityGeneral PublicIdeologuesRiftModern Era Author:David C. Cassidy
“I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.” WorldHeartWarCountryAmericaPoliticalDesireSpeakMoralExampleMy HeartSorrowAnxietyPassionateBelovedVietnamSpeaks OutKings And LoveBeloved CountryPassionate Desire Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them are men who gave us a great deal of anxiety during the years of Confrontation because they were Malay extremists. Your life and this dinner would not be what it is if my colleagues and I had decided to play it according to the rules of the game.” IfsMenYearsPlayLawPoliticalGamesDealsProveAnxietyHundredDecidedCourtDinnerColleaguesConfrontationExtremistSingaporeRules Of The GameDetainees Author:Lee Kuan Yew
“A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.” PoliticalGirlAnxietyConvictionDuesDisability Author:Millicent Fawcett