#pol

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#cast #different #educated #face #interest

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#bear #eating #expansion #federal #form

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#begin #else #grandiose #man #politics

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#french #joined #member #party #political

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#associate #bad #bad men #combine #contemptible

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#policy #principle #rebels #subjects #tyrants

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. ↗

— John Burns

#administrative #advocate #because #beyond #courage

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. ↗

— John Burroughs

#gathers #good #good thing #little #man

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#allowed #always #away #guns #hell

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#control #corporate #dominate #executives #ideas