#politics

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#now #one-party #politics #possibility #right

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#again #always #class #cool #democrats

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#act #democracy #dissent #faith

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#become #best #elevate #heart #honesty

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#allow #because #been #disperse #harvesting

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#away #fade #parties #political #political parties

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#always #end #gun #move #pick

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#business #covered #dissatisfaction #emotions #gradually

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#conservative #enough #former #liberal #mugged

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#conservatism #distrust #fear #liberalism #people