#political

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever. ↗

— Peter Krause

#end #getting #groups #i #large

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#america #american #american politics #assassination #character

In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#because #been #capital #even #example

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#depraved #financially #morally #politically #profitable

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general. ↗

— Jiang Zemin

#also #applied #believe #both #concepts

Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#classes #each #economical #energy #fought

The success and achievement of Western Civilization couldn't have been possible without the intellectual contribution of the Enlightenment. Prior to the Enlightenment, freedom of opinion, or consciousness were not guaranteed. In fact, intellectual self-reliance was considered an heresy. For the first time in history, human beings were able to challenge traditions, superstitions or religious authoritarianism with absolute intellectual confidence. Now individuals could open the doors to knowledge and reason, exercising pure intellectual freedom. This is the glory and trascendence of this movement. Now the individual can make choices, and being responsable of his own life, instead of following instructions of some totalitarian institution. In the West, we have followed with excitenment this wave of freedom in the Middle East. But we are cautious. There won't be an authentic freedom, if men and women are incapable to think for themselves, If religious chauvinism still control the lives with totalitarian tools of oppresion. That is the dilemma to analize with more detail in the future". ↗

— Miguel Sedamano

#freedom

The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a generalist's discipline. Imagine the poor geographer trying to explain to someone at a campus cocktail party (or even to an unsympathetic adminitrator) exactly what it is he or she studies. "Geography is Greek for 'writing about the earth.' We study the Earth." "Right, like geologists." "Well, yes, but we're interested in the whole world, not just the rocky bits. Geographers also study oceans, lakes, the water cycle..." "So, it's like oceanography or hydrology." "And the atmosphere." "Meteorology, climatology..." "It's broader than just physical geography. We're also interested in how humans relate to their planet." "How is that different from ecology or environmental science?" "Well, it encompasses them. Aspects of them. But we also study the social and economic and cultural and geopolitical sides of--" "Sociology, economics, cultural studies, poli sci." "Some geographers specialize in different world regions." "Ah, right, we have Asian and African and Latin American studies programs here. But I didn't know they were part of the geography department." "They're not." (Long pause.) "So, uh, what is it that do study then? ↗

— Ken Jennings

#geography #geology #political-science #politics #sociology

Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and that can get you killed faster than a bullet through the head. ↗

— Henry Mosquera

#black-ops #conspiracy #espionage #global #hackers

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brickheads #conscious #consciousness #conservatism #conservative