Quotes About Political

Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

The power of a free mind consists of trusting your own mind to ask the questions that need to be asked and your own capacity to figure out the strategies you need to get those questions answered. Over time, this requires building communities that make this kind of intellectual and political work possible.

I wasn't always a demon. My name is Maggie Frew, and I grew up a simple human girl in suburban Iowa. I don't carry a pitchfork, or have a forked tail. I'm not a creature from Hell. I'm a political campaign manager. Though, I guess some people might argue those are the same thing.

M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum , supporting a mixed polity partaking of elements both royal and political, which is to say, popular and representative.

Too many of the men and women serving in Congress were political opportunists by habit, inclination, and experience. When a president was popular, they crowded in close, hoping to share in the limelight. But at the first sign of trouble or weakness they were only too eager to join the pack baying for his blood.

Have the military wing create as much discontent and deprivation as possible, the more unemployment the better. Then have your political wing feed off the people's discontent.

According to the former executive, Purdue eventually went over the agency's head, appealing to the political leadership in the Reagan administration. "They were putting pressure on the White House," the executive said. This strategy succeeded.

Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do political opportunists.

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

There is one possibility left,' he wrote on Christmas Day 1913, 40 years ahead of his time, 'an industrial customs union, of which sooner or later, for better or worse, the states of Western Europe would become members… Fuse the industries of Europe into one … and political interests will fuse too.' (2)

Over the past decade that I've been working with relational and addictive disorders among America's elite men, women and families, I've seen extraordinary healing occur among the ashes of professional, personal and political wastelands.

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

In 1938, U.S. public opinion preferred fascism to communism by 31 percent to 22 percent; 47 percent had "no opinion.

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

Breaststroke is an athletic event; butterfly is a political statement.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. This manipulation is sometimes carried out directly by the elites and sometimes indirectly, through populist leaders. As Weffert points out, these leaders serve as intermediaries between the oligarchical elites and the people. The emergence of populism as a style of political action thus coincides causally with the emergence of the oppressed.

The starting point for organizing the program content of education or political action must be the present, existential, concrete situation, reflecting the aspirations of the people. Utilizing certain basic contradictions, we must pose this existential, concrete, present situation to the people as a problem which challenges them and requires a response—not just at the intellectual level, but at the level of action.

Study circles. They began also to have their study circles, studying, discussing the Gospels, and think­ ing about the political and social circumstances in which they were reinterpreting the Gospels. In doing that, they discovered the need to change the country, and they got a new consciousness-a historical, politi­cal consciousness of the reality.

Yet he personally vowed to more carefully expend his political energies. "I don't want to be a fireman anymore," he told SCLC staff. He promised to stop trying to extinguish racial fires created by Jim Crow, though he still planned to fan political flames at a time and place of his choosing.54