#politic

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance. ↗

— Daniel Guérin

#politics #anarchism

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#kindness #politics-observation #observation

السياسة فن السفالة الأنيقة ↗

— أنيس منصور

#سياسية #observation

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#commentary #gay #honesty #lesbian #lgbt

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#politics #hell

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#politics #psychology #culture

Pseudoscience often relies on a witches' brew of scientific terms (e.g. "wavelength," "energy fields," "vibrations") half-baked into simplistic metaphors that do not correspond with testable reality. In some cases, pseudoscience simply relies on language that is deliberately vague and poorly defined to deceive. While outright lunacy is almost always easy to spot, the most dangerous of pseudoscientific meanderings are those filled with scientific terminology that, even for experts, can initially be daunting and impressive. Upon dissection, however, the terminology is invariably found to be misused, or used in a context far from accepted understanding. However convincing and artful, however much we may even wish the conclusions to be true, monuments built in such shifting sands cannot withstand the inevitable tests of time. ↗

— K. Lee Lerner

#politics #pseudoscience #science #art

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world. — Winston S. Churchill ↗

— Ellen Brazer

#espionage #historical-novel #history #holocaust #intrigue

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#apathy #apolitical #determinism #historical-determinism #history

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#government-corruption #politics #senate #present