#political

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#business #chosen #country #even #fight

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country. ↗

— Dennis Hopper

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A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination. ↗

— David Horowitz

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What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system. ↗

— Kurt Huber

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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ↗

— Plato

#politics #political

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#identity #nation #nationalism #politics #political

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. ↗

— Aristotle

#peacemaking #politics #war #political

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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