#pol

you should not run for president because tactically you can win. The questions you have to ask are why you're running for president and what will you do when you are president. You shouldn't run until you know the answers to those questions. ↗

— Joe Biden

#life

If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled about it, afraid, or ashamed. This is the time to boldly say, “Yes, I believe in the displacement of this system of injustice by a just one; I believe in the end of starvation, exposure, and the crimes caused by them; I believe in the human soul regnant over all laws which man has made or will make; I believe there is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another; I believe in the total disintegration and dissolution of the principle and practice of authority; I am an Anarchist, and if for this you condemn me, I stand ready to receive your condemnation. ↗

— Voltairine de Cleyre

#anarchist #history #politics #crime

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