#politics

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. ↗

— Alan Clark

#blood #circling #friends #politics #sharks

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#men

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#government #politics #men

Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like adulterers being punished and black slaves breaking loose and giant whales eating people? Why can't literature just be stories about women? Refined, respectable women have just as much to say as ignorant black slaves or bloodthirsty Indians or mad white whaling captains. Why do we have to pretend those people's lives matter more than our own? ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#men

Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed. ↗

— Daniel Abraham

#justice #morality #politics #men

Americans, though apparently impressed by ghastly sentimentality and outrageous hypocrisy, are by nature much more politically cynical than Canadians. In their longer history they have had much more to be cynical about. They demand a vulgar show, enjoy it, guffaw, and forget it the next morning. When a new U.S. President takes office all bets are off and his campaign platform is dismantled and stored away. ↗

— Gordon Donaldson

#men

a room without boooks like a body without soul ↗

— Roger of Taizé

#politics #science #inspirational

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. ↗

— George Lakoff

#george-lakeoff #humor-inspirational #political-humor #political-science #politics

It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! ↗

— Patrick Henry

#politics #religion #inspirational

The most effective way to revive democracy is to do what we have always done; transfer decision-making from the unaccountable institutions: monarchs, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations, and bring it back to the public arena.” ~Aaron Nordquist ↗

— Aaron Nordquist

#inspirational #politics #resolutionism #inspirational