#politics

I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it. ↗

— Bill Maher

#humor #politics #society #change

The public option is not optional. It is our toe-hold on structural change. ↗

— Ellen Shaffer

#courage #equality #freedom #inspirational #life

...anyone wishing to hold office will be disqualified from being a candidate based on his desire to hold office. ↗

— Edward M. Wolfe

#politics #change

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#culture #education #politics #education

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#debate #politics #society #transform #change

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. ↗

— George Washington

#party-dissension #party-politics #age

In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#age

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations. ↗

— Chris Patten

#above #accommodations #course #got #i

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#conservative #just #man #mostly #sits

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#society #age