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Political Quotes
Political life, criticized and examined from several sides.
This set includes one quote critical of a named judge's judicial philosophy, alongside more general observations about school boards serving as a training ground for political leadership. For satirical takes on politics, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
When President Trump attacks the media and his political opponents for criticizing him, he's attacking our founding principles.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.
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- Nov 07, 2020