Quotes About Politics

Who controls the women and babies has been a keystone of every repressive regime on the planet.

It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time.

the Republic of Texas is nervous. They fought Gilead to a standstill, but they don't want to be invaded. They're avoiding provocations.

All of these men are thinking mostly about ruling and rulers. Who should rule, and how. Who should have power, how they should get it, and how they should use it.

I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.

Beheading a Queen had not alarmed the populace as much as appointing one Finance Minister would.

China. The Kaiser had temporarily

As Gustave Flaubert said, "I defend the poor Republic but I don't believe in it.

Among artists, Pissarro and Monet were Dreyfusard, Degas and Cézanne Anti.

La violencia no es guerra a menos que se lleve a cabo en nombre de una unidad política […]".

Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville, said Rhett, his mouth twisting. He doesn't care if they all die. The order is out. No exchanges.

war and politics and thought them masculine matters about which no lady could intelligently concern herself. But it gave Gerald pleasure to air his views, and Ellen was unfailingly thoughtful of her husband's pleasure.

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn.