#pol

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#defend #destruction #eventually #fact #inescapable

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. ↗

— Robert Peel

#being #citizen #community #duties #every

Politics swings like a pendulum. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#pendulum #politics #swings

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. ↗

— Leonard Peltier

#fighting #freedom #her #his #imprisoned

In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order. ↗

— Li Peng

#china #continue #countries #developing #economic

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed. ↗

— Claude Pepper

#been #forgetting #lot #make #mistake

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ↗

— Pericles

#interest #just #just because #mean #politics

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#decent #democracy #generous #healthy #honorable

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. ↗

— Plato

#call #come #end #hands #humanity

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#aspects #basic #control #cultural #focusing