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Quotes About Political

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.
~ Giambattista Vico
Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.
~ Steven T. Byington
The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.
~ Thomas Sowell
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
~ Paul Wolfowitz
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
~ George F. Kennan
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
~ James Madison
The strength of the democratic constitutional state lies precisely in its ability to close the holes social integration through the political participation of its citizens.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
A boxing movie without clichés is like a political campaign without lies.
~ A.O. Scott
Qavam made two demands of the Shah before he would accept the job. The first was for the Shah to dissolve the Majlis, and the second was to allow the arrest of Kashani. The Shah refused both demands, but Qavam nonetheless accepted the task of forming a new government. It
~ Abbas Milani
It is time we recognised the casual normalisation of lethal misogyny as an act of political terrorism and not, as the mindless purveyors of the free speech doctrine would argue, as simply the democratic right to masturbate to whatever takes his fancy.
~ Abigail Bray
The labor leader Eugene V. Debs, for whom Hardie had campaigned years before, left a sickbed in 1918 to give a series of antiwar speeches, for which he, too, was thrown behind bars. The judge told him he might get a lesser sentence if he repented. "Repent?" asked Debs. "Repent? Repent for standing like a man?" Still in his cell in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, in 1920, he would receive nearly a million votes for president on the Socialist ticket.
~ Adam Hochschild
At Christabel's instigation, women infiltrated all-male meetings of the ruling Liberal Party: they hid underneath the speakers' platform, rappelled down from skylights, climbed through windows, always shouting "Votes for women!
~ Adam Hochschild
The lesson Arendt drew was that a beautiful soul is not enough, for it was precisely the soul for which life showed no consideration. To live fully and securely, every human being needs what Arendt calls specificity, the social and political status that comes with full membership in a community.
~ Adam Kirsch
By effectively proscribing all change from below without placing any constraints on the powers of rulers, such a system arrested normal development and created a situation in which, since absolutist rulers were unlikely agents of social, economic or political development, change could only be brought about by violent revolution.
~ Adam Zamoyski
The apprentice system is a mainstay in the working life of Italians, but this particular movement was as political as it was artistic, born of the need to lift the Italians out of poverty after the war. The movement spread, thus the proliferation of handcrafted Italian goods, some of which still exist today. For the families who trained together, and opened their own businesses, branding was born.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Leadership means inspiring us to manage through our fears. Demagoguery means exploiting our fears for political gain.
~ Al Gore
political will is a renewable resource
~ Al Gore
The news may encourage us to imagine that the roots of a nation's problems have their fundamental origins in criminality at the top and yet, though there is clearly a role for targeting individual rotten apples, there is an equally vital task in directing attention to the colourless yet far larger institutional failures that lie concealed within our political and social arrangements.
~ Alain de Botton
Of course, there would be few great human achievements if we accepted all frustrations. The motor of our ingenuity is the question 'Does it have to be like this?', from which arise political reforms, scientific developments, improved relationships, better books.
~ Alain de Botton
There's no point worrying about it now, at any rate. Things tend to sort themselves out, Alma thinks, although she knows that this directly contradicts the laws of physics, common sense, and her political experience of the last forty years.
~ Alan Moore
The goal was organized resistance to racial subjugation, and its harassing effect was probably more potent precisely because they risked so much without either economic or political power and with no certainty that they could change a system that they had known and hated all of their lives.
~ Derrick Bell
Given racism's critical role in providing an outlet for white frustrations caused by economic exploitation and political manipulation, one wonders whether American society could survive as we know it if large numbers of whites ever realized what racism costs them and decided to do something about it.
~ Derrick Bell
Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance
~ Derrick Jensen
But the market, with its great strengths, is not the appropriate mechanism to supply services that should be distributed equally to people in every neighborhood in every city and town in the nation without regard to their ability to pay or their political power. The market is not the right mechanism to supply police protection or fire protection, nor is it the right mechanism to supply public education.
~ Diane Ravitch