“I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.” IfsThinkingPoliticalLeftCausesCasesPositionDefinitionsBe GoodMeritExamining Author:Walter Cronkite
“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.” WellsPersonsSelfPoliticalDesireStagePossibilityPositionFoolSceneAmbitionClaimsMadnessPraiseCriticsDefinitionsFollyCriticizeLicenseRivalsRivalryReprisalErasmus Author:J. M. Coetzee
“Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.” PoliticalCertainThreeTermFourDemandApproachRelationDefinitionsFollowingNationalismBroadsColonialismClosestConsistencyVagueObscureImperialismAbstractionElusiveVigilanceKindredOverlappingInternationalism Author:J. Allan Hobson
“The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.” PoliticalProcessDifficultHigherDefinitionsHelpfulRoughProvenGroundedHigher PowerTerrain Author:Hakeem Jeffries
“In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.” PoliticalMadnessDefinitionsSanityArbitrary Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical verity. We do truthfully experience our lives differently because our bodies are different. It is in what we do with our experience that we are the same. We feel, absorb and examine with the same intensity, and intense experience honestly examined informs the art of both sexes equally. ... The power of imagination illuminates all human lives in common.” MenFeelsHumansArtDifferentFactsBodyPoliticalSexImaginationDifferencesCommonOur LivesSubjectsMen And WomenDefinitionsHonestlyIntenseHuman LifeIntensityPower Of ImaginationDifferences Between Man And Woman Author:Anne Truitt
“The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.” KnowsNeedsShouldEndsMomentsPoliticalDefinitionsEveningInnateDonorsPolitical LifeHollowness Author:Dennis Miller