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“When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves — this is only half the truth. As regards our security and life we defend ourselves and our moral and physical position is not bad. We can face the gangs... and were we allowed to mobilize all our forces we would have no doubts about the outcome... But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict which is in its essence a political one. And politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. Militarily, it is we who are on the defensive who have the upper hand but in the political sphere they are superior.”

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a 'science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities.”

People Men World Real Political Economy Subjects Objects Essence Commodity Bourgeois Disregard Inhuman Political Economy

Book:The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

Source: The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

“The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.”

Philosophy Political Democracy Plans Fields Economics Essence Mechanism Engineering Political Philosophy Reservoirs

Author:Benjamin Graham

“the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.”

“The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.”

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Author:Bob Avakian

“Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.”

“The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or ethnic, and the psychic, nature of human beings -- treat not of human things but mere things, things that make up the physical, or circumstantial, content of human life but are not of the stuff of humanity, have not the human essence in them.”

Humans Political Humanity Social Stuff Human Beings Essence Treats Mere Human Life Psychics

Author:Laura Riding

“I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.”

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Author:Bette Midler

“The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with men in the streets, offices, professions, factories, sports, and now even in political and military life, is one of those dissolutive phenomena in which, in most cases, it is difficult to perceive anything positive. In essence, all this is simply the renunciation of the woman's right to be a woman.”

“Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves.”

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Author:Michel Foucault

“It was a step forward to charge Pinochet with terrorism, and to acknowledge that the essence of the crime is the use of political violence to induce great fear in society and against those who are innocent, and not just such violence that is directed against the state by opposition groups.”

States Use Political Steps Violence Groups Crime Essence Terrorism Innocent Acknowledge Opposition Steps Forward Political Violence Pinochet

Author:Richard A. Falk

“I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.”

“The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.”

Government Political Politics Essence Rivalry Free Government

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams

“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.”

Political Lying Politics Essence Deception Deceiving Self Deception Transcendentalism

Book:The Complete Works of John Ruskin

Source: The Complete Works of John Ruskin

“When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.”

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Author:Bob Woodward

“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”

“The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.”

Philosophy Political Poverty Economics Essence Crisis Extremes Extreme Poverty

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

“The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.”

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Book:Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

Source: Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

“Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is”

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Author:Tony Benn

“But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.”

Thinking Political Leadership Ability Inspiring Clear Essence Sticks Political Leadership

Author:Chris Patten

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