#politics

I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#president

What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender. ↗

— Terry Jones

#bushism #grammar #politics #terrorism #terrorism

Ideology is the science of idiots. ↗

— John Adams

#john-adams #politics #science

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power. ↗

— Clive James

#ideology #politics #power #ideology

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance. ↗

— Daniel Guérin

#politics #anarchism

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#kindness #politics-observation #observation

السياسة فن السفالة الأنيقة ↗

— أنيس منصور

#سياسية #observation

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