#political

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years. ↗

— David Miliband

#big #britain #build #cultural #democratic

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change. ↗

— David Miliband

#change #economic #lead #political #politics

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#conquest #consequence #established #foreign #institutions

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#american #american taxpayer #asked #being #benefit

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#clearly #developed #einstein #first #had

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. ↗

— Moliere

#blunders #books #dancing #failures #fill

All I am saying is I will be a senator - should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would believe that there might be a need for my service, I would consider it. ↗

— Mario Monti

#any #believe #circumstance #consider #forces

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon. ↗

— Mario Monti

#demand #government #hidden #italy #jargon

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. ↗

— Norman Tebbit

#certainly #death #intellectuals #movement #political