Political Quotes
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There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
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The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
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Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?
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You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.
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Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.
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Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.
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We have developed contacts with five groups of insurgents. We are making these contacts in an attempt to bring them into the political process.
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It is possible for political forces to agree.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
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And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.
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Hillary Clinton is in political trouble and perhaps even legal trouble over her use of private e-mail accounts and bypassing government-issued accounts containing substantial amounts of information that belongs to the federal government. But ultimately, I don't think this latest controversy will hurt her presidential ambitions.
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Islam neither requires one to be practising, nor to dress in one way or another. So imposing the veil on a woman is contrary to the principles of Islam. … Unfortunately, after all the suspicion weighing on Islam, many people have begun to consider the veil as a political problem, but this is not the case … Wearing the veil is a free personal choice.
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Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
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As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
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Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
