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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state at all. Why not have anarchy?
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public is looking for free lunches, and the political competition for votes makes the politicians offer them free lunches.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino gambling money.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers and political contributions to ensure their bottom line stays unchanged by the most basic safety precaution.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I always try to do is make the political personal.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.
- Fugitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It’s good to learn and be engaged and listen to people, see what’s going on. But that’s not the motivator: if I was a political person, I’d have gone into politics.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Godard is a phony to me. His technique is great, but he just keeps replaying the same political rhetoric.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
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- Nov 07, 2020