#politics

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The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#commentary #gay #honesty #lesbian #lgbt

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#politics #hell

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#politics #psychology #culture

Pseudoscience often relies on a witches' brew of scientific terms (e.g. "wavelength," "energy fields," "vibrations") half-baked into simplistic metaphors that do not correspond with testable reality. In some cases, pseudoscience simply relies on language that is deliberately vague and poorly defined to deceive. While outright lunacy is almost always easy to spot, the most dangerous of pseudoscientific meanderings are those filled with scientific terminology that, even for experts, can initially be daunting and impressive. Upon dissection, however, the terminology is invariably found to be misused, or used in a context far from accepted understanding. However convincing and artful, however much we may even wish the conclusions to be true, monuments built in such shifting sands cannot withstand the inevitable tests of time. ↗

— K. Lee Lerner

#politics #pseudoscience #science #art

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#apathy #apolitical #determinism #historical-determinism #history

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#government-corruption #politics #senate #present

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#politics #turkey #television

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions. ↗