#pol

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#deathers #logic #politics #reason #tea-party

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#country #lebanon #life #peace #politics

More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more hideous language on the face of the earth than the American form of English, I should like to know what it is." (We should perhaps bear in mind that the House of Lords is a largely powerless, nonelective institution. It is an arresting fact of British political life that a Briton can enjoy a national platform and exalted status because he is the residue of an illicit coupling 300 years before between a monarch and an orange seller.) ↗

— Bill Bryson

#english #humor #politics #life

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#fitness #motivational #politics #life

If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community. 'A polis is not an association for residence on a common site, or for the sake of preventing mutual injustice and easing exchange.' While these conditions are necessary to a polis, they are not sufficient. 'The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end. ↗

— Michael J. Sandel

#justice #polis #politics #life

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring. ↗

— Farkas Bolyai

#mathematics #politics #science #thought #science

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#justice #majority #minority #perspective #politics

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#revolution #remember

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words. ↗

— Gustave Le Bon

#propaganda-government #science

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#atheists #bigotry #bigots #christianity #ignorance