#pol

Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#good-and-evil #morality #political-philosophy #political-science #religion

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. ↗

— William Kirby

#conjunction #consulting #cooperation #create #cultural

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#companies #different #employees #finance #large

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.' ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#announced #arnold #arnold schwarzenegger #big #california

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#conserative #liberal #politics #wisdom #age

Terror must never be allowed as a means for political confrontation. ↗

— Klaus Kinkel

#confrontation #means #must #never #political

In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#attitude #believe #interview #least #people

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. ↗

— Pat Paulsen

#face #immigration #immigration policy #indian #part

We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy? ↗

— Robert Lanza

#breakthroughs #bush #change #his #how

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. ↗

— Alfred L. Kroeber

#humanistic #humanities #most #sciences #scientific