“We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.” PeopleNeedsRunningPoliticalFightingTeachStreetsRevolutionArmsStructureInternationalRevolutionaryPigsOrganizeUp And DownResistingPolitical PowerReactionaries Author:Fred Hampton
“We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.” WorldWellsSelfEarthPoliticalIndividualSocialGrowthReligiousPracticeEventsAcceptanceCivilizationConsciousEvidenceRelationStructureWesternInternationalContemporaryRealizationManifestWorld HistoryHere And NowShakingInternational RelationsBreakdownWestern CivilizationAnalyticsSocial StructurePsych Author:Edward F Edinger
“The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and work out a solution for self-governance that would give all three groups a share in political power. Simultaneously, the UN should arrange for shipments of food and medicine, from the United States and other countries, as well as engineers to help rebuild the country.” GivingShouldWellsSelfCountryStatesHelpingTogetherPoliticalThreeForceUnitedUnited StatesGroupsShareSolutionsMedicineInternationalWork OutEngineersOther CountriesGovernancePolitical PowerKurdsPeacekeepers Author:Howard Zinn
“In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.” PeopleWayHumansSelfCountrySeemsPoliticalValuesOrderInterestSpaceViewsEconomicExerciseSucceedDestructionMovedInternationalTerrorismBackgroundsPeacefulImpulseBrutalIrrationalBentNegotiationAdvancementSelf InterestFactionsHuman ValuesScourgeCivilisedInternational Terrorism Author:Margaret Thatcher
“Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle.” ThinkingKindMayCharacterSeemsAgePoliticalSpeakFunImaginationMiracleInternationalDareBoringDenyHearingDullLiarsFraudArenaMadmenReassuring Author:Oriana Fallaci
“A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.” KnowsTryingIdeasWarMomentsHelpingPoliticalMoralBreakAmountRelationInternationalAriseSentimentsInternational RelationsBreak OutObtaining Book:Precepts and Judgments Source: Precepts and Judgments
“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.” WorldImportantWarStatesPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesCenturyParticularCapitalismExcitingClaimsRelationOriginalsStartingInternationalChinaDebateChineseOur TimeSurprising21st CenturyEmergingPolitical SystemsStarting Point Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.” MenStatesPoliticalForceNationsTermActingCreativeConceptsFundamentalsInternationalPlanningCorporationsOrganizedPrincipalUnitsMultinationalsMultinational CorporationsOrganized Life Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“It was measured that the splinters of the Armenian nation that had managed to miraculously escape the Genocide would not be able to recover from the blow, would disappear in the whirlpools on five continents, lose their national identity, and aptitude to be a political factor. But we, as a nation and as a state, were able to reappear at the international arena to affirm that we continue our eternal journey and that we are determined not to allow for such a crime to ever happen again.” StatesHappensAblePoliticalNationsLosesFiveJourneyCrimeIdentityEternalInternationalBlowDeterminedDisappearFactorsGenocideContinentsArenaAptitudeArmeniansSplintersNational IdentityWhirlpools Author:Serzh Sargsyan
“the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.” PoliticalNationsPoorRichCenturyInternationalThemeDistinctionDominantRich And PoorPoor Nations Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“I worry about international terror as a method for bringing about political change or sociological change in different countries. And this concerns me because our homeland is not - we see now, is not immune from this kind of dastardly attack. And so I worry about that a lot.” KindDifferentCountryPoliticalWorryConcernMethodInternationalTerrorHomelandImmuneDifferent CountriesSociologicalPolitical Change Author:George H. W. Bush
“I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.” IfsWorldNeedsHas BeensRealityPoliticalFoundHeavenUnderstandingPresidentInterestPartyWonderfulFailingPolicyTheoryRepublicanSpeechIntentionChaosInternationalBlowDisappointmentBurdenTragicPresident ObamaForeign PolicyEgyptRepublican PartyGroundedGood IntentionsSavvyShort SightedChaos Theory Author:Munir Butt
“I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.” ThinkingProblemPoliticalHappeningsInternational Author:Patti Davis