#politics

The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political is itself a political decision! ↗

— Richard King

#religion #attitude

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#anyway #flattering #get #glorified #his

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share? ↗

— Richard Trumka

#angry #ask #corporations #fair #fair share

We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for! ↗

— Richard Trumka

#building #case #develop #dime #electoral

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice. ↗

— Rob Walton

#american #american politics #choice #i #learned

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. ↗

— Rick Warren

#church #i #i believe #i believe in #i do

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#beings #civilized #civilized nations #earth #great

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#aside #hard #liberal #network #new

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ↗

— E. B. White

#democracy #half #more #people #recurrent

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#business #exhausted #finally #found #nature