“Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.” PoliticalDesirePurposeIndividualFashionCorporationsContribution Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.” MenWorldWayShouldHumansMeanFactsHelpingHandsChristianFacesPoliticalSocialVoiceChurchGreaterEconomicFashionDivineOrganizationBridgesAgencyPriestsDistrustDeitiesConsoleStand AloneNo FriendsSocial OrganizationFugue Author:Lionel Trilling
“In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.” IfsGivingRealPoliticalPassionLanguageForceTermLinesWrittenFashionConstitutionRelyDocumentsReignPolitical SystemsBindingCompactGeneralitiesBetween The Lines Author:Alex Kozinski
“Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.” WorldNeedsTwoWarPoliticalNationsSeaFashionResourcesWar Of The WorldsHeroicCivilisationPolitical WillWorld War TwoRenewable Resources Author:Al Gore
“Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.” GivingPoliticalCertainSocialRolesGroupsFashionFollowingClubsImpressionBelongingSocial Groups Author:Carine Roitfeld
“The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.” HumansChristianPoliticalBeliefHuman BeingsKnownFashionCreationBearsImperfectBelief SystemsResemblance Book:God and His Demons Source: God and His Demons