“If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.” IfsFeelsMayMadeCountryFactsPoliticalDifficultStruggleGoneHugeNormalDictatorshipGreeceBarbarismPolitical LifeUpheavalPolarization Author:George Papandreou
“Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task." "Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.” PeopleFactsNaturalDecisionCommonLeaderStruggleDevelopmentTasksOrganizationUnityPursuitWitnessLiberationOrganizeLinkedManipulateLiberatedImposing Author:Paulo Freire
“The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all.” FactsWould BeValuesUniverseMoralStruggleIssuesRewardsDeterminedPunishmentProvidenceDeitiesFugitiveFuture LifeMoral IssuesReward And Punishment Book:Classics Revisited Source: Classics Revisited
“The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party system. We have the Republicans and we have the Democrats, and we have almost no one else, no other strictly political aggregate that amounts to a corporal's guard in the struggle for power.” TwoFactsMightPoliticalPartyStruggleAmountRepublicanDemocratPatternsPersistentAmerican PoliticsTwo Party System Book:Parties and Politics in America Source: Parties and Politics in America
“Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.” FactsFunnyStruggleEmptyAskingEightYesterdayOfficialsSeatsOlympicsCastingOrganizerLondon OlympicsEmpty Seats Author:Conan O'Brien