Quotes About Political

It is only with the development of political institutions like the modern state that humans begin to organize themselves and learn to cooperate in a manner that transcends friends and family. When such institutions break down, we revert to patronage and nepotism as a default form of sociability.

The current dysfunction and decay of the American political system is

The desire for recognition, and the accompanying emotions of anger, shame, and pride, are parts of the human personality critical to political life.

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

PC advocates deny the existence of objective knowledge and morality, and thus see no point in employing moral suasion and logical argument to convince their fellow citizens that their viewpoint is correct. Their only means available is therefore using the instruments of political power, such as coercion, intimidation, marginalization, and name-calling. To put it philosophically: Ideas are not the power by which to change the world, but rather, the world's ideas are changed by power.

el subdesarrollo mexicano se encuentra en la catástrofe educativa, en la superstición religiosa y en la intolerancia política.

Nuestra historia política oscila entre la fragmentación de poder y el caos, por un lado, y su excesiva concentración y sus consecuencias indeseadas, por el otro. No hemos logrado los equilibrios: un grado de desarrollo político en el que el gobierno funcione inserto en esquemas de contención, controles y contrapesos.

Meanwhile, Florence was increasingly becoming, for different reasons that not were not foreign to one another nor opposed – artistic and cultural on the one hand and political on the other – the Mecca of travelers and foreign residents.

the idea of a supra-human Chief Justice, totally 'objective', may be a necessary political and social myth but it is an illusion for all that.

mistress Madeleine Duncan Brown told a different story. Brown reports that on November 21, 1963, the night before the Assassination, LBJ met with several Dallas Tycoon, political figures, mobsters and FBI moguls at a lodge outside of Dallas.

So much for Western origin stories, which depict our forebears as ferocious, fearless, and free. Unbound by social commitments and merciless toward their enemies, they seem to have stepped straight out of your typical action movie. Present-day political thought keeps clinging to these macho myths, such as the belief that we can treat the planet any way we want, that humanity will be waging war forever, and that individual freedom takes precedence over community.

nationalism is not explained, enriched, and deepened, if it does not very quickly turn into a social and political consciousness, into humanism, then it leads to a dead-end."23

It is commonly thought with criminal flippancy that to politicize the masses means from time to time haranguing them with a major political speech.

Yemen was, in the years prior to World War I, the 'Vietnam' of the Ottoman Empire, but not that of Egypt. In Yemen, Egypt attained its political goals. The republic survived.

What he had no disagreement about with either former president was that political parties were instruments of bad governance; they were manifestations of individual or group self-interest that would undermine republican government.

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

in a democracy, ordinary citizens should be wary of political leaders who provide simplistic answers to complex social, political, and economic problems.

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

Perhaps only the acknowledgement of this radical incommensurability between human existence and the dynamic of collective history and production is capable of generating new kinds of political attitudes; new kinds of political perception, as well as of political patience; and new methods for decoding the age as well, and reading the imperceptible tremors within it of an inconceivable future.

The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.