#politics

In politics, there are no friends. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#politics

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. ↗

— Abba Eban

#always #experience #leaders #mean #opposite

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#i #i am #literature #politics #religion

...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#politics #religion #religion

Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#religion #equality

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#aloof #chuck #considers #defense #fools

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#act #democracy #dissent #faith

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#become #best #elevate #heart #honesty

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#allow #because #been #disperse #harvesting

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#conservative #enough #former #liberal #mugged