100 Quotes About Politic

Political leaders are called many things, including President, Prime Minister, and Mayor of the Town. But they’re usually called something else too: human beings. They’re people who are forced to make decisions that are sometimes life-threatening, sometimes life-altering. And on top of that, they have to deal with daunting situations on a daily basis while having to constantly maintain control of their relationships with thousands of different people Read more

It’s no wonder that it can be difficult, even impossible, for them to stay optimistic and positive when dealing with the business of politics. Yet many great leaders have managed it. Here are some inspirational quotes about politics from some of the most powerful people in the world.

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I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations... I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries? Graham Greene
I can see how it might be possible for a...
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. Abraham Lincoln
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know...
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. Robert E. Howard
In my many years I have come to a conclusion...
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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. Peter Stone
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You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place. Bruce Sterling
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
My concern is not whether God is on our side;...
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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. Abraham Lincoln
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government...
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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. Ronald Reagan
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights...
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The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. John F. Kennedy
A Nation should not be judged by how it treats...
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A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones Nelson Mandela
I never did give them hell. I just told the...
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I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. Harry Truman
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Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. Ronald Reagan
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans. Theodore Roosevelt
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a...
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. Unknown
Total paranoia is just total awareness.
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Total paranoia is just total awareness. Charles Manson
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but...
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. Abraham Lincoln
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel...
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Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul. Thomas Paine
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were...
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive...
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Unknown
Too bad that all the people who know how to...
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. George Burns
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the...
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If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. Stephen Colbert
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It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what.", The Guardian, 5 June 2005] Stephen Fry
You have to remember one thing about the will of...
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You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena. Jon Stewart
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a...
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To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. Douglas Adams
I have never voted in my life... I have always...
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I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win. Unknown
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it...
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Winston S. Churchill
I have left orders to be awakened at any time...
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. Ronald Reagan
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I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country … how are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one? Bill Hicks
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I...
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you! . Bill Hicks
It is by the goodness of god that in our...
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It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Mark Twain
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The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life. Garrison Keillor
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a...
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When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine Margaret Thatcher
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the...
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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. Gideon J. Tucker
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there...
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was...
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His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. Jennifer Crusie
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government,...
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. Ambrose Bierce
Guns are our friends because in a country without guns,...
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Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are. Ann Coulter
If we would learn what the human race really is...
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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. Mark Twain
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I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ. Ann Coulter
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The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid, worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way. James Finn Garner
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Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment — you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the other’s going, ‘I don’t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things. Russell Brand
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People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left. Bill Hicks
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you...
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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. Malcolm X
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's...
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. William S. Burroughs
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Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. . Bruce Lee
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you...
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If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. Keith Richards
The first duty of a man is to think for...
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The first duty of a man is to think for himself Unknown
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who...
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Ayn Rand
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a...
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker Malcolm X
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Pierre Dos Utt
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as...
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. Vladimir Lenin
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art...
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The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution! Albert Einstein
The end may justify the means as long as there...
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. Leon Trotsky
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to...
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one. Plato
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to...
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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too. Malcolm X
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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. Adam Smith
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Leon Trotsky
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A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. Unknown
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the...
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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. Vladimir Lenin
Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves....
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Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic. John Rawls
The point of modernity is to live a life without...
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The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned Antonio Gramsci
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Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. Unknown
I knew I was alone in a way that no...
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I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. Michael Collins
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man JeanJacques Rousseau
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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. Unknown
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business,...
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Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. Eric Hoffer
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop...
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It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think. Thomas Sowell
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Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. Vladimir Lenin
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What is so often said about the solders of the 20th century is that they fought to make us free. Which is a wonderful sentiment and one witch should evoke tremendous gratitude if in fact there was a shred of truth in that statement but, it's not true. It's not even close to true in fact it's the opposite of truth. There's this myth around that people believe that the way to honor deaths of so many of millions of people; that the way to honor is to say that we achieved some tangible, positive, good, out of their death's. That's how we are supposed to honor their deaths. We can try and rescue some positive and forward momentum of human progress, of human virtue from these hundreds of millions of death's but we don't do it by pretending that they'd died to set us free because we are less free; far less free now then we were before these slaughters began. These people did not die to set us free. They did not die fighting any enemy other than the ones that the previous deaths created. The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names. Solders are paid killers, and I say this with a great degree of sympathy to young men and women who are suckered into a life of evil through propaganda and the labeling of heroic to a man in costume who kills for money and the life of honor is accepting ordered killings for money, prestige, and pensions. We create the possibility of moral choice by communicating truth about ethics to people. That to me is where real heroism and real respect for the dead lies. Real respect for the dead lies in exhuming the corpses and hearing what they would say if they could speak out; and they would say: If any ask us why we died tell it's because our fathers lied, tell them it's because we were told that charging up a hill and slaughtering our fellow man was heroic, noble, and honorable. But these hundreds of millions of ghosts encircled the world in agony, remorse will not be released from our collective unconscious until we lay the truth of their murders on the table and look at the horror that is the lie; that murder for money can be moral, that murder for prestige can be moral. These poor young men and woman propagandized into an undead ethical status lied to about what is noble, virtuous, courageous, honorable, decent, and good to the point that they're rolling hand grenades into children's rooms and the illusion that, that is going to make the world a better place. We have to stare this in the face if we want to remember why these people died. They did not die to set us free. They did not die to make the world a better place. They died because we are ruled by sociopaths. The only thing that can create a better world is the truth is the virtue is the honor and courage of standing up to the genocidal lies of mankind and calling them lies and ultimate corruptions. The trauma and horrors of this century of staggering bloodshed of the brief respite of the 19th century. This addiction to blood and the idea that if we pour more bodies into the hole of the mass graves of the 20th century, if we pour more bodies and more blood we can build some sort of cathedral to a better place but it doesn't happen. We can throw as many young men and woman as we want into this pit of slaughter and it will never be full. It will never do anything other than sink and recede further into the depths of hell. We can’t build a better world on bodies. We can’t build peace on blood. If we don't look back and see the army of the dead of the 20th century calling out for us to see that they died to enslave us. That whenever there was a war the government grew and grew. We are so addicted to this lie. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue. It drowns us, drowns our children, our future, and the world. When we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death; we follow it. Stefan Molyneux
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When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think! Unknown
If your desire is for good, the people will be...
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If your desire is for good, the people will be good. Confucius
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TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty. Walt Whitman
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The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution. Noah Levine
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at...
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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. Friedrich Nietzsche
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on...
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The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart. Noah Levine
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We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality. James S. Kunen
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The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens — tax livestock — labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters. Stefan Molyneux
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It’s not the drug that causes the junkie it’s the laws that causes the junkie because of course the drug laws means that he can’t go and get help because he is afraid of being arrested. He also can’t have a normal life because the war on drugs has made drugs so expensive and has made drug contracts unenforceable which means they can only be enforced through criminal violence. It becomes so profitable to sell drugs to addicts that the drug dealers have every incentive to get people addicted by offering free samples and to concentrate their drug to the highest possible dose to provoke the greatest amount of addiction as possible. Overall it is a completely staggering and completely satanic human calamity. It is the new gulag and in some ways much more brutal than the soviet gulag. In the soviet gulags there was not a huge prison rape problem and in this situation your life could be destroyed through no fault of your own through sometimes, no involvement of your own and the people who end up in the drug culture are walled off and separated as a whole and thrown into this demonic, incredibly dangerous, underworld were the quality of the drugs can’t be verified. Were contracts can’t be enforced except through breaking peoples kneecaps and the price of drugs would often led them to a life of crime. People say “well, I became a drug addict and I lost my house, family, and my job and all that.” It’s not because you became a drug addict but, because there is a war on drugs which meant that you had to pay so much for the drugs that you lost your house because you couldn't go and find help or substitutes and ended up losing your job. It’s all nonsense. The government can’t keep drugs out of prisons for heaven’s sakes. The war on drugs is not designed to be won. Its designed to continue so that the government can get the profits of drug running both directly through the CIA and other drug runners that are affiliated or through bribes and having the power of terrorizing the population. To frame someone for murder is pretty hard but to palm a packet of cocaine and say that you found it in their car is pretty damn easy and the government loves having that power." -Stefan Molyneux. Stefan Molyneux
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every...
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. Alain Badiou
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I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it . Ali Shariati
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When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people. Kelly Bryson
Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the...
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Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; U.S. Congress
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when...
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In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. Kevin Alan Lee
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign,...
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The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. Fulton J. Sheen
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics,...
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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. Friedrich Nietzsche
A constitution that is made for all nations is made...
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. Joseph De Maistre
It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot,...
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It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about. Criss Jami
Every country has the government it deserves.
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Every country has the government it deserves. Joseph De Maistre
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. Fulton J. Sheen
Pay attention to me.
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Pay attention to me. Sally Quinn
Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the...
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Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it! Erich Maria Remarque
Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing....
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Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view. Khushwant Singh
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Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and this is our situation, frustrated , but on the other part of world (West) , they are enjoying in party and drinking liquor (white liquid) but their situation is that, successful, I do not know that the problem relates to the type of liquid or the way of drinking! ! Ali Shariati
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I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore. Tom Robbins
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La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas. Aldous Huxley