#politics

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment. ↗

— Noah Levine

#philosophy #politics #life

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#freedom #freedom means #means #never #opportunity

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done. ↗

— Barack Obama

#dreams

In a legitimate democracy, all have an equal say. ↗

— Joshua Emmet

#equality

power is not divided equally ,differences in any form leads to destruction of every country... we came to lead we r being leaded we came to earn we r being earned ↗

— palash

#truth-telling #equality

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#politics #religion #faith

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#control #patriarchy #politics #reproduction #revolution

Newt Gingrich, buddy, the people of the United States don’t like you. And the only reason the rest of the world doesn’t despise you is because they don’t know you. Thankfully you won’t have to experience that global derision, as you have reached the pinnacle of your career as a crook—I mean politician. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #creep #crook #crooked #despise

Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around. ↗

— Timothy S. Goeglein

#politics #faith

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#politics #dreams