Quotes About Political force

If the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent voting bloc that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Notwithstanding our boastful assertions to the world, for nearly a century, that our government was based on the consent of the people, it rests upon force, as much as any government that ever existed. - Robert E. Lee

Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.

Oft have I marked, with silent pleasure and admiration, the force and prevalence, through the United States, of the principle that the supreme power resides in the people, and that they never part with it. It may be called the panacea in politics.

The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred.

Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses.

Here I had a common objective with Tariki. But he wanted to control our natural resources by political force. I knew this would be impossible. So one of the first things I did when I became a minister was to establish a national oil company and a petroleum university.

being used now, in order to force slavery on to Kansas; for it cannot be done in any other way. [Sensation.] The

I saw Trump as a necessary force to disrupt a broken system that was no longer serving the American people.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

It is only when women start to organize in large numbers that we become a political force, and begin to move towards the possibility of a truly democratic society in which every human being can be brave, responsible, thinking and diligent in the struggle to live at once freely and unselfishly. Such a democracy would be communism, and is beyond our present imagining.

My party would not have allowed the Taleban to become such a huge force that they would need to sign a peace treaty.

We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization.

We in America were worried about many problems dealing with economic inequality and political inequality. The Communist Party seemed to be the only political force, both concerned and willing, to take action to stop the threat of fascism abroad and to work for economic and political reform in this country.

Los regímenes revolucionarios, desde la Alemania nazi y la China maoísta hasta la Venezuela contemporánea, muestran que la gente tiene muchísimo que perder cuando los autoritarios carismáticos que responden a una -crisis- pisotean las normas y las instituciones democráticas y gobiernan sus países mediante la fuerza de sus personalidades.

They were forced to vote for communists, as if communists needed voting for.

War is politics implemented by the use of force.

Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.

The PRI portrays itself as the force of the center, of stability.

Many historians still consider Jackson's two terms (1829–1837) the fulfillment of the promise of the American Revolution's anti-aristocratic aspirations, a moment of boisterous egalitarianism in which restless white workers armed with the vote became a political force.21 "A