“Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.” ShouldCountryMomentsLawPoliticalLyingPoliticsNaturalJusticePrinciplesRightsOughtRootsProtectionSubstitutesEfficientCommerceEntitledPolitical SystemsLegal RightsNatural Justice Author:James F. Cooper
“There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.” MenWisdomPoliticalPoliticsEconomyDesignRevolutionInventionLiberalismPolitical SystemsTolerable Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.” WisdomGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsEconomyCitizensTaxesTiesLiberalismExpensesStrongestCheerfulnessPolitical SystemsHomestead Act Author:Andrew Johnson
“New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done so in three ways: by dramatically boosting the access of individuals and special interests to politically potent information, by making it easier for such people to coordinate their activities and exert political power, and by greatly increasing the pace of events within our political systems.” PeopleWayDonePoliticalThreePoliticsIndividualInterestTechnologyDemocracyModernSpecialEventsInformationChangedInternetEasierActivityCompetitionIncludingPhonesAccessLandscapePaceEmailBlastPolitical SystemsPhone CallsInformation TechnologyPolitical PowerSpecial InterestsCoordinatesNew InformationThree WaysFax Author:Thomas Homer-Dixon
“Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.” MenMayPoliticalPassionPoliticsTaughtRevolutionLessonsSincerityDogmaPolitical SystemsFrench Revolution Book:Abraham Lincoln Source: Abraham Lincoln
“All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.” HumansPoliticalPoliticsIndividualMoralFatePracticalsHuman LifeContemptGrandeurPolitical Systems Book:Collected stories and other writings Source: Collected stories and other writings
“If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas would certainly be ripe. You would think that if you bring oxygen to the organism, the organism lives. But there may be other organisms in there that thrive in darkness and in a more anaerobic environment. Watching those creatures writhe will always be interesting.” IfsThinkingMayPoliticalPoliticsInterestingDarknessEnvironmentCreaturesAreasTensionThriveIntroducingOrganismsIdealismOxygenRipePolitical Systems Author:Jon Stewart