#lit

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. ↗

— Fawn M. Brodie

#both #combination #either #friendship #insatiable

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#basis #challenge #create #development #fairness

I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest. ↗

— Jim Brown

#big #big guy #chest #deep #down

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#clean #detestable #i #kitchen #lives

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#issue #life #person #personal #political

I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense. ↗

— William P. Bundy

#action #alternative #any #convince #course

It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of the temple doors, when the priests lit the fires on the altars, to deceive the populace into ascribing to a deity what was the work of the engineer. In much the same way today, the almost boundless fecundity of the creative scientific discoveries and inventions of the age are being appropriated for the purpose of the mysterious opening of doors into the holy of holies of the temples of mammon by a hierarchy of imposters and humbugs, whom it is the first task of a sane civilization to expose and clear out. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#money #politics #science #technocracy #age

I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me. ↗

— Emma Bunton

#drive #feel #got #i #i feel

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#ever #greater #hiroshima #intellectual #journalist

E eu pergunto aos economistas políticos, aos moralistas, se já calcularam o número de indivíduos que é forçoso condenar à miséria, ao trabalho desproporcionado, à desmoralização, à infâmia, à ignorância crapulosa, à desgraça invencível, à penúria absoluta, para produzir um rico? ↗

— Almeida Garrett

#money #politics #money