#politic

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education #end #human #human nature #knowledge

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment. ↗

— Kamal Ahmed

#behaviour #being #believe #fed #genuine

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#action #any #bigger #brain #cell

Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#bush #clinton #clinton administration #creating #eventually

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#art #development #find #knowledge #life

As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth so inherently worthy of respect, or invested with a right so sacred, that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment (p. 290). ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#equality

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#appears #beneath #career #during #feet

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american #american politics #been #buy #economic

We seek in one another the assurance that there is just one correct interpretation of the world, that everything is so simple that anybody can see it unless they're malicious or stupid or willfully ignorant; and we punish one another for proving with our differing conclusions that the truth is not that easy. We think we must suppress dissension to present the unified front we need to gain power over our enemies. But there are pro-life Democrats, pro-choice Christians, feminists who love their families, and conservatives who care about poor people. ↗

— Alisa Harris

#politics #social-justice #faith

Nothing is irreparable in politics. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#nothing #politics