#politics

An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants, and both sides shot him. ↗

— John Frohnmayer

#law #politics #art

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#politics #art

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth. Tolerance applies to the erring, intolerance to the error … Architects are as intolerant about sand as foundations for skyscrapers as doctors are intolerant about germs in the laboratory. Tolerance does not apply to truth or principles. About these things we must be intolerant, and for this kind of intolerance, so much needed to rouse us from sentimental gush, I make a plea. Intolerance of this kind is the foundation of all stability. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#politics #tolerance #anger

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#politics #process #beauty

...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful. ↗

— Dave Hickey

#beauty #politics #art

The public option is not optional. It is our toe-hold on structural change. ↗

— Ellen Shaffer

#courage #equality #freedom #inspirational #life

...anyone wishing to hold office will be disqualified from being a candidate based on his desire to hold office. ↗

— Edward M. Wolfe

#politics #change

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing. ↗

— Steve Kluger

#my-most-excellent-year #politics #communication

The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty. ↗

— George Shultz

#nationalism #politics #communication

The communications apparatus at headquarters was remarkable...It was possible to communicate directly with all important theaters of the war...They could be directed from Hitler's table in the situation room. The more fearful the situation, the greater was the gulf modern technology created between reality and fantasies with which the man at this table operated. ↗

— Albert Speer

#communication