“My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.” PeopleCountryUsePoliticalGoneNiceFingersWaveEsteemVery Nice Author:Jimmy Carter
“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
“Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.” DoeProblemPoliticalImaginationLevelsGoneImagineSeeingRacismLet MeImagine ThatArena Author:Phylicia Rashad
“In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.” MenHumansPoliticalCultureCoursesNamesIndividualInterestReligiousGoneTroubleEvolutionUniqueEndlessCommitDogmaEfficiencyOutrageReligious Dogma Author:Aldous Huxley
“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.” LawPoliticalPartyGoneBrotherFormerPleasantConsistencyUnclesCousinIn-lawsVoguePolitical LifeBrother In Law Book:Phineas Redux Source: Phineas Redux
“Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor would any major war in which Britain was involved after this date end in defeat. Those who are curious about this country's peculiar social and political stability probably need look no further than this for essential cause.” NeedsLooksWarEndsCountryPoliticalSocialCausesGoneStageInvolvedEssentialsMajorsUnionsDefeatCuriousBritainStabilityPeculiarBritish History Author:Linda Colley
“Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.” PeopleWayI CanTwoWisdomTodayPainPoliticalDiesPoliticsEnergyNationsLeaderEconomyGoneMonthsSixOrganizationEducationalBillionsIdeologyLiberalismSix MonthsMachineryStarvationDeprivationPolitical LeadersBombshells Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.” PeopleHas BeensWarHandsPoliticalReligiousChristianityPracticeGoneEconomicEventsBuddhismHolyConcernedEternityViolentTheologyOppressionObsessedHinduismConsistentlyImperialismJudaismHumaneHand In HandHoly WarProselytizingHinduism And Buddhism Author:Aldous Huxley