#pol

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#idealism #just #politics #thought #will

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us. ↗

— Russell Banks

#divided #dividing #issues #political #political issues

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#east #especially #europe #feudal #feudalism

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#everything #manure #policy #public #public policy

Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#constituents #economy #getting #growing #hearing

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things. ↗

— Christian Bale

#actor #always #family #i #i always

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#areas #because #came #emerging #england

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#change #cultural #driven #exclusive #great

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#know #me #monopoly #somebody #tells

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#difference #market #market share #monopoly #share