“The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.” KindHas BeensMightPoliticalPresidentCareersFailingHorrorShotsRisingMonumentGrindReluctantThugTreacheryWatergateImpeachmentVengefulCheap Shots Book:The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people below them. A lot of people do not have relationships horizontally. And there's a lot of people who reach high political offices, but who are weirdly lonely, weirdly lacking in intimacy skills.” PeoplePoliticalSkillsOfficeLonelyIntimacyRisingAmbitiousLacking Author:Mark Shields
“No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.” PoliticalLeaderHappenedSceneRisingLabourOpportunist Author:Michael Foot
“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.” HumansWellsMayAgeSpiritualPoliticalPassionIndividualResponsibilityEconomicEssentialsDignityRevolutionaryRisingIngredientsDeniedRequirementsBeing HumanDominationVocationSlogansHuman Dignity Book:Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society
“The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.” WayHardPoliticalReligiousLeaderDoubtMovementPositionAuthorityCastsRevolutionaryRisingIslamicRegimesAcademicTidesCompetenceKhomeini Author:Yousef Saanei