- Opinion
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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the political confusion and the torrid heat, I convinced myself that Madrid was the world's stomach and that I had been chosen for the task of restoring this digestive organ to health.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was to describe myself in terms of a political philosophy, I'd cast myself as a social and economic liberal, which is typically what people describe as being left-of-centre on social issues and right-of-centre on economic issues.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.
- Death Penalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are broad freedoms in Israel. In fact, Israel's Declaration of Independence grants all Israel's inhabitants equality of social and political rights irrespective of religion, race or gender.
- Free Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.
- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.
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- Nov 07, 2020