“All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.” MenStatesPoliticalDesireInterestNumbersGreaterSpringHarmonyUnityActiveVarietyOccasionsArrangementsCollisionTransgressionManifold Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.” PeopleRealityPoliticalPoliticsSidesCommunityPartyMoralEnemyGenerationsHuman NatureMovementBecomingEthicsAbsolutesStrategyUnityTerrorConvictionIdeologyTeaVotingDisagreeFree SpeechSuperiorityPolitical PartiesFlexibilityCivilityDisobedienceTea PartyCivil DisobedienceHereticPartisanshipThird PartiesPolitical MovementsOversimplificationMoral Superiority Author:Doris Lessing
“Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.” MenWorldHumansWarSelfPoliticalPossibilityPromiseMen And WomenUnityDebateClamorSouthernerWorld LovePolitical DebatesNortherners Author:Aberjhani
“It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.” IfsWantCountryPoliticalSocialUnderstandingUnitedResponsibilityLeaderMediaUnityOur CountryDynamicsPolitical LeadersCohesion Author:Salva Kiir Mayardit