The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. —Robert A. Heinlein More about this quote Tags: politics government universe sense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every government, whatever its form, character, or color — be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi, or Bolshevist — is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: politics change government conservatism Nazi monarchy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counterproductive but trivial. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: politics reality religion dogma purpose change ambition evolution triviality counterproductive Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. —W. C. Fields More about this quote Tags: politics voting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. —Robert F. Kennedy More about this quote Tags: politics opposition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only real struggle in the history of the world … is between the vested interest and social justice. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: justice politics history power struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: politics poverty government wealth rich people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart. …This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of hearts, there remains… an uprooted small corner of evil. —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More about this quote Tags: humanity politics evil good dichotomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: politics religion learning knowledge censorship science suppression Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. —Paul Valéry More about this quote Tags: politics power people democracy control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. —Lily Tomlin More about this quote Tags: honesty politics cynicism USA hard work elections adults Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. —Milton Berle More about this quote Tags: politics time irony committee waste Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes . . . as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Tags: war politics imagination memory people failure science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You may break any written law in America with impunity. There is an unwritten law that you break at your peril. It is: do not attack the profit system. —Mary Heaton Vorse More about this quote Tags: politics law USA capitalism profit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Duke of Cambridge protested that he wasn't arguing against change. He favored it, he said, when there was no alternative. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: politics change argument conservatism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email