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“We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.”

Political Left Leader Generations Communication Internet Mindset Suspects Versus Emerging Political Leaders Younger Generation

Book:The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

Source: The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

“I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.”

Years Political Paper Hometown Cartoonist Alexandria Lagoons

Author:Jim Toomey

“The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations.”

Political Sex Class Generations Movement Battle Achievement Tiny Squares Egyptian Friction Political Movements Tahrir Square

Book:Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World

Source: Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World

“Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.”

Source: Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

“In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.”

Way Writing Trying Feelings Political Song Lost One Thing About Family Feeling Lost

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“Loving a woman is always political.”

Political Loving A Woman

Author:Nicole Brossard

“When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.”

People Two War Real Hands Political Groups Economic Sake Significance Opposing Robbers

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.”

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Book:What Is to Be Done?

Source: What Is to Be Done?

“A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.”

Political Levels Party Class Duty Mass Average Vanguard

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.”

People Persons Political Conditions Capitalism Standing Organization Trade Unions Tendencies Betray Privileged Divorced Bureaucrats Trade Unions

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.”

Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

“A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.”

Able Political Desire Leader Cases Expression Compromise Revolutionary Concrete Proletariat Treachery Political Leaders Opportunism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.”

Problem Political Causes Military Essence

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.”

Want Political Democracy Path Economic Socialism Absurd Conclusion Reactionaries

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.”

Looks Political Plans Criticism Majority Revolutionary Etc Sincere Broads Resentment Economist Controversy Theoretical Disagreement Craftiness

Book:Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

“If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.”

Ifs Action Political Fire Car Stones Agree Resistance Thrown Protest Disagree Offence Political Action

Author:Ulrike Meinhof

“DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document… DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestseller—its major failings notwithstanding.”

Knows Political Failing Acceptance Majors Medicine Making Money Documents Psychiatry Insiders Fabrication

Author:Loren Mosher

“Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?”

Needs Mean Political Goal Economic Sustainability Uncertain Ecological Insufficient Very Mean Uncertain Times

Author:Jamais Cascio

“I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.”

Littles Political Bits Little Bit Junkie

Author:Tim Heidecker

“I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.”

Long Reason Bigs Political Stuff News Jokes Shelves Shelf Life Old News

Author:Tim Heidecker

“Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.”

Use Political Nations White Audience Laughing Weapons Laughter Terrorism Phrases Capitalist Patriarchy Lectures Political Systems

Book:The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.”

Doe Reason Body Political Joy Spirit Heal Statements Disabled

Author:Stella Young

“There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.”

Way America Political Culture Leader Youth Prejudice Display Suspicion Identification Political Leaders

Author:Miroslav Volf

“Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.”

Ifs Want Wells May Shows Political President Planets Oil Remembered Foreign Oil Political Courage

Author:Jeff Goodell

“John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy - maybe Marilyn Monroe's first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows?”

“Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every other cause had won at some time but that of the people themselves. At least it threw so a light on any other political persuasion.”

People Matter Light Seems Political Lost Causes Concerned Persuasion Anarchism Lost Cause

Author:Albert Meltzer

“The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.”

Political Modern Tools Slavery Crush Lacking Political Will Modern Slavery

Book:Half the Sky

Source: Half the Sky

“Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.”

“If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.”

Ifs World Feelings Political Force Islam Depth Encounters Iran Brotherhood Doomed Hamas Muslim World Hezbollah Muslim Brotherhood

Book:The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

Source: The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

“It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any Government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon. It will not do.”

Men Writing Trying Has Beens Government Political Remains Unions Territory Persuasion Wonderland Lexicon Orwellian

Author:Roger Gale

“Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.”

Way Should Humans Political Order Social Democracy Rights Economic Understood Environmental Human Rights Absence Broads Threatened Unjust Degradation Environmental Degradation

Book:Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

“Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.”

May Political Spirituality Social Church Institutions Pursuit Setting Settings Political Institutions

Author:D. Patrick Miller

“As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.”

Thinking Way Humans Two Political Values Human Beings Behinds Millions Clear Youth Election Campaigns Meaningful Core Barack Who We Are Political Campaign Hope And Change

Author:Adam Braun

“The natal chart is like a seed and progressions are the unfolding in time of that into the plant it is to become. Transits, are like a daily weather report. In political astrology, these three factors have to be taken into account!”

Political Three Taken Accounts Plant Seeds Weather Factors Reports Astrology Progression Unfolding Natal

Author:Alice O. Howell

“Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.”

“Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.”

Important Might Political Ideals Aim Lips Noise Progressive Careless Political Correctness Correctness Incessant

Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to anticipate with preventive action!... The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over.”

“Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.”

Play Stories Bigs Care Political Fighting Causes Process Interest Can Do Pay Democracy Promise Threat Republic Who Cares Equality For All Political Equality

Author:John Bonifaz

“With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- through the chronicle of a powerful family's fortunes -- one of the great political dramas of our time.”

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Author:Ronald Steel

“What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man ... the Kaffir is to be declared the brother of the European, to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights.”

Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

“Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.”

Wells War Done Political Results Judging Victory Standards Ministers Not Sure Historian Judged

Author:Winston Churchill

“The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy.”

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Author:William C. Bryant

“The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.”

Thinking Firsts God Political Religion Spirituality Politics Jesus Power Economics Rate Agnostic Economist

Book:Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

Source: Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

“If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.”

Ifs Mind Problem Would Be Political Greater Feet Universal Remains Pyramids Suffrage Finality Universal Suffrage

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.”

Source: With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

“The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.”

“Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.”

People Writing Made Would Be Political Humanity Three Century Materials Projects Defined Flawed Crooked Timber

Author:George Will

“Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.”

Ideas Political Groups Office Addiction Political Groups

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.”