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“If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.”

People Ifs Knows Political Asks Women Moral Conditions Position Men Women

Author:Aime Martin

“The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.”

Doe Stills Political Values Moral Intellectual Capitalism Determine Artistic Spheres Insistence American Capitalism

Author:William Pfaff

“I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.”

Political Suffering Values Difficult Moral Judgment Gains Distance Indifference Detachment Relativism Malady

Author:Pierre L. van den Berghe

“Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.”

Problem Political Moral Emotional Competition Conundrums

Book:Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage

Source: Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage

“Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little given the magnitude of America's moral decay. Since 1988, the new leaders have recognized that incrementalism is the surest path to success in political competition. The current movement is committed to securing small victories now, postponing for the long-term more fundamental changes in society and politics.”

“We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray... This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn... Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God's love.”

“Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.”

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Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.”

Political Moral Policy Opposition Diabolical Malevolence

Book:The Crucible

Source: The Crucible

“In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.”

Use Political Lying Language Chance Fiction Moral Economic Flow Warfare Tactics Mobility Guerrillas Guerrilla Warfare

Book:Bodies of Work: Essays

Source: Bodies of Work: Essays

“People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.”

People Want Believe Long Political Moral Issues Focus Method Indirect Political Issues

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent, between a strong conviction that we must go to war and an abundant compassion for any that may die as a result, and between political conservatism and personal decency.”

May War Facts Political Dies Strong Results Compassion Moral Humility Intellectual Conviction Clarity Dependent Faith In God Decency Conservatism Incompatibility

Author:David Limbaugh