#politics

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#dictatorship #gandhi #politics #privacy #religion

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#country #euthanasia #politics #death

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#politics #society #death

Im Verlaufe nicht nur der ökonomischen, sondern auch der politischen Globalisierung kann das kardinale völkerrechtliche Prinzip der Nichteinmischung in Gefahr geraten. Besonders gilt dies für dasVerhältnis des Westens zur islamischen Kultur. Vornehmlich von meinem toten muslimischen Freunde Anwar as-Sadat habe ich den Respekt gegenüber anderen Religionen gelernt. Ich habe von ihm gelernt die gleichen Wurzeln von Judentum und Christentum und Islam. Und inzwischen habe ich ausserdem gelernt, dass Konfuzius, Sokrates oder Lao Tse und ebenso Zarathustra und Gautama Buddha ein halbes Jahrtausend, Moses oder Echnaton ein ganzes Jahrtausend vor Jesus von Nazareth gelebt haben - und dass sie wahrscheinlich deswegen doch nicht unglücklicher gewesen sind als wir Heutigen. Unter den globalisierten Umständen der heutigen Menschheit geziemt jedermann Respekt und Toleranz gegenüber den Kulturen der anderen. ↗

— Helmut Schmidt

#politics #religion #tolerance #religion

if Jesus had stooped to play politics he might have become a key man in Roman Judea, a big operator. It was because he was indifferent to politics, and made his indifference clear, that he was liquidated. How to live one's life outside politics, and one's death too: that was the example he set for his followers. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#death

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#marketing #media-of-the-united-states #politician #politics-of-the-united-states #design

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#politics #education

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#clean up #common #common ground #ground #politics

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism. ↗

— K. Lee Lerner

#history #journalism #media #politics #science

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system. ↗

— Marie Lu

#freedom #inspirational-attitude #leadership #politics #revolution