Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

Paul Johnson

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

Ken Livingstone

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

Pankaj Mishra

So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent.

James Madison

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

John Dewey

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

John Dewey

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Benazir Bhutto

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

C. S. Lewis

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Samuel P. Huntington

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies

Daniel Solove

Having your identity stolen is somewhat like contracting a chronic, protracted disease.

Beth Givens

I think it's probably going to be as big of an issue as say, identity theft.

Warren Farrell

Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

Wilfred Burchett

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Kurt Busch

Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same.

Khaled Hosseini

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

Jeff Goldblum

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Noam Chomsky

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

Judith Butler

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.