#tate

Now you're giving advice as if you had the right to use a word like love. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#southern-state #love

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain—and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#england #harry-potter #jk-rowling #rain #rome

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#change

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#revolution #revolutionary #state-terrorism #terrorism #dictatorship

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country. ↗

— Gene Sharp

#foreign-states #dictatorship

Life is for participating, not for spectating. ↗

— Kathrine Switzer

#participate #running #spectate #inspirational

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#anarchist #chomsky #communism-patriotism-inspiration #lenin #leninism

I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission ↗

— Eric Wilson

#mission-statement #inspirational

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#religon #separation-of-church-and-state #inspirational

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#business #nation #state