William Dwight Whitney Quotes
Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day.
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The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
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As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
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The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
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The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
