#politics

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#anarchist #politics #experience

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating? ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#culture #politics #equality

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't. ↗

— Chester Brown

#how #i #i think #important #interest

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. ↗

— Lord Hailsham

#honest #into #introduction #passion #politics

I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward. ↗

— Peter Hain

#always #asked #back #been #forward

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. ↗

— Warren G. Harding

#america #healing #need #normalcy #present

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#comes #community #concerned #conservative #current

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ↗

— Gary Hart

#call #higher #i #i think #office

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...' ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#desire #disappear #factor #good #good people

I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#communities #first #first things #go #here