#political

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#political-philosophy #inspirational

Society is full of varieties, is this possible to make all of them sensitive? Then there will be no politics. ↗

— Vikram Roy

#philosophy #political #social #inspirational

Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#political #principles #inspirational

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation. ↗

— Susie Bright

#course #feminism #followed #got #i

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#moment #nobody #political #subject #wants

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#act #else #equating #everyone #freedom

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#because #child #could #difficult #favourites

All literature is political. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#political

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

#authority #come #end #hangs #least

When people say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

#else #get #hold #invariably #machinery