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“Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.”

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals

“The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.”

Needs Humans Mean Art States Care Political Purpose Values Loneliness Activity Eternal Machines Ultimate Aim Institutions Statements Aspiration Declaration Framework Reflecting Cargo

Author:Stephen Spender

“The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.”

Years Political Literature Belief Behinds Theory Scene Ultimate Lays Revolutionary Explanation Disposition Controversy

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy.”

“The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.”

People Way Trying Believe Political Our Lives Capable Ultimate Activism One Way Optimist Penetrate Using Words

Author:Cherrie Moraga