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“It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.”

Long Country Political Party Consideration Political Parties Avoided Great Change

Author:Anthony Trollope

“In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.”

Law Political Party Gone Brother Former Pleasant Consistency Uncles Cousin In-laws Vogue Political Life Brother In Law

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform... when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.”

Needs Political Causes Results Views Liberty Projects Practicals Cease Reform Perceive Adoption Parliament Funding Parliamentary

Author:William Cobbett

“I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.”

Should Children Political Father Born Air Subjects Sweet My Children Countrymen

Author:William Cobbett

“His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

“Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.”

Kind Facts Hands Political Social Differences Rights Equal Possession Genuine Enormous Vulnerability Relative Hand In Hand Social Equality

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.”

Men Mean States Would Be Political Individual Economic Talent Personality Productions Socialism Cooperatives Touchstones Economic Power Classless Society

Book:The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics

Source: The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics

“Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.”

Needs May Mean Littles Hard Political White Economy Speech Mass South Flight Optimistic Disappointed Collapse South Africa Slaughter Zimbabwe Political Speeches

Author:Simon Hoggart

“I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain.”

Knows Feels Wells May Littles Political Stuff Bits Audience Materials Little Bit Tools Statements Spices

Author:Tim Allen

“As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.”

People Thinking Way Want Problem Faces Political Actors Loss Morning Planets Becoming Bed Philosophical Blow Passages Unpredictable Imaginative Better Ways Passage Of Time

Author:Bruce Sterling

“A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.”

People Political Principles Ignorance Citizens Succeed Function Seeking Ignorant Marvelous Political Systems Barbarism Illiterate Illiteracy Barbaric Being Ignorant

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.”

May Care Young Political Quality Civilization Rhetoric Elderly Commonplace Forecasts Political Rhetoric

Book:Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

Source: Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

“Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.”

Knows Want Wells Political Simple Information Scientist Complexes Arguing Educated Impulse Complexity Exposed Strain Leftists

Book:Coping: On the Practice of Government

Source: Coping: On the Practice of Government

“Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.”

Ends Political Practice Danger Function Activism Reach Out Representation Surrogates

Author:Angela Davis

“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

“Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.”

Men Needs Littles Reason Whole Political Individual Interest Media Particular Mass Difficulty Satisfaction Selling Appeals Aspiration Sensible Embodiment Mass Media

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments.”

“Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.”

Doe Philosophy Political Order Silence Share Example Truth Is Relation Errors Productions Traditional Theme Confession Affinity Political History

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men's affairs did place women's economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women's economic security in jeopardy.”

Men Want Would Be Political Leader Roles Economic Stage Security Behavior Models Affair Divorce Role Models Political Leaders Jeopardy Economic Security

Author:Warren Farrell

“The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.”

Men Law Political Violence Demand Perception Protective Sexist Generic

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“Ideally there should not be a men's movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women's movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men's movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.”

People Men Should Political Challenges Special Movement Healthy Filled Gender Temporary Transition Political Movements

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.”

War Political Force Principles Military Ready Conflict Aim Fundamentals Population Destroyed Revolutionary Portions Adversaries Military Force

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.”

Spiritual Political Social Realizing Economic Becoming Balance Determination Realization Cultivating Regeneration Resurgence Spiritual Balance

Author:Nnamdi Azikiwe

“Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.”

“[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.”

People Self Political Community Liberty Economic Messages Prosperity Revolutionary Participation Conservatism Economic Prosperity Political Participation

Author:Irving Kristol

“The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.”

Political Century Events Majors Socialism Twentieth Century

Author:Irving Kristol

“the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who are mystified into the notion that they are not political bondmen, by that great juggle of the ' English Constitution ' a thing of monopolies, and Church-craft, and sinecures, armorial hocus-pocus, primogeniture, and pageantry!”

Political Church Millions Rights Constitution Notion British Crafts Empires Twelve Fifteen Monopoly British Empire Freeman Hocus Pocus Pageantry

Book:Richard Cobden's German Diaries

Source: Richard Cobden's German Diaries

“the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.”

Political Class Principles Economy Filled Working Class Political Economy

Book:Speeches on Questions of Public Policy

Source: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy

“I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings.”

World Writing Believe May Has Beens Book Done Young Political I Believe Community Principles Economy Protection Harm Passages Favour Mills Political Economy

Author:Richard Cobden

“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.”

Thinking Way Giving Years Believe Mean Political Social Term Party Economic Serious Conflict Years Ago Crisis Developing Revolutionary Capitalist Socialist Stagnation Socialist Party

Author:Anthony Crosland

“A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.”

Political Social Religious Periods Civilization Members Benefits Entity Uniformity

Book:Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

Source: Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

“The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.”

Mind States Facts Law Political Realizing Powerful Structure Corporate Crucial Machinery Political Systems

Book:The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America

“Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.”

Thinking Wells May Helping Would Be Political Names Term Economy Economics Minors Convenient Troublesome Alterations Substitution Political Economy

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum.”

Philosophy Government Political Names Individual Responsibility Institutions Minimum Political Philosophy Anarchism Reduction Vanishing Parliamentary Individual Responsibility Regal

Author:Alex Comfort

“In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.”

Believe Political Individual I Believe Animal Strange Periods Controversy Obsessing

Book:The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature

Source: The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature

“To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense. There is no evidence that capitalism exists today. We are deeply involved in an interventionist-planned economy that allows major benefits to accrue to the politically connected of both political parties. One may condemn the fraud and the current system, but it must be called by its proper names Keynesian inflationism, interventionism, and corporatism.”

Source: Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

“I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the most original and surprising and exciting of our time. The starting point is a system that none of us had anticipated, which I call Leninist capitalism, but also obviously because it is the most important emerging power. The question of China's relations with the United States in particular, and the rest of the world in general, is the question of war and peace in the 21st century.”

“We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.”

Want Mean Ends Home Political Goal Struggle Violence Economic Military Victory Aspect Destruction Israel Destroyed Compromise Palestine Back Home Elimination Zionism Mediation No Compromise

Author:Yasser Arafat

“It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.”

Said Ends Today Political Causes Term Situation Evolution Consequence Terrorist Examination

Book:Infinite Thought

Source: Infinite Thought

“Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?”

Body Political Turns President Son Campaigns Temperature Your Son Political Campaign

Author:Glenn Beck

“Reformed rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like Islam, radicalized Islam in a way, to where it is just - radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics. When you look at the Reform Judaism, it is more about politics.”

Way Looks Political Islam Reform Judaism Rabbi

Author:Glenn Beck

“The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.”

People Government Political Wish Citizens Doctrine Agreement Restriction

Book:Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

“In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.”

People Ifs Today Together America Political Nations Party Brain Democrat Ridiculous Voting Political Parties

Book:Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

“If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.”

Ifs Want Doe Political Democracy Subjects Citizens Office Argument Vote Fellows Democratic Candidates Scrutiny Reservations

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.”

Wells Persons Self Political Desire Stage Possibility Position Fool Scene Ambition Claims Madness Praise Critics Definitions Folly Criticize License Rivals Rivalry Reprisal Erasmus

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.”

Long Political Evil Loss Worst Dictatorship

Book:What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67

Source: What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67

“Vision is not political rhetoric.”

Political Vision Rhetoric Political Rhetoric

Book:My Years as Prime Minister

Source: My Years as Prime Minister

“Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form of conscription being proposed or introduced. Thus would be provided a most favourable political platform upon which to fight the National Government.”

Should May Made Government Would Be Form Political Fighting Force Effort Platforms Armed Forces Conscription

Author:Stafford Cripps

“Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.”

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