#politics

I think, tribalism is a mental prison…and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one’s ability to abandon it. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#limitations-of-knowledge #tribalism #arrogance

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free... ↗

— Utah Phillips

#political #politics #freedom

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#inspirational #politics #revolution #struggle #freedom

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#atheist #freedom #legislation #liberty #politics

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. ↗

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity. ↗

— Michael Moore

#freedom

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#politics #love

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and band, the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#men

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#many #much #politics #racing #things

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

#politics #the-world #thinkers #political-philosophy