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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
One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got to 'The Daily Show,' they asked me to have a political opinion. It turned out that I had one, but I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judges are appointed often through the political process.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heterosexuals were the upstarts who turned marriage into a voluntary love relationship rather than a mandatory economic and political institution.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.
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- Nov 07, 2020