#pol

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#politics #society #courage

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

#another #call #going #helping #i

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. ↗

— Tom Peters

#around #building #cause #common #community

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#politicians

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar. ↗

— William Pierce

#blends #every #greatness #his #person

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#between #book #connections #constitution #debates

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#body #certain #community #economic #features

All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer ↗

— Robert Owen

#humor #people #philosophy #art

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#mystery #politics #life

historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible, impalpable, uncontrollable, only one attitude is appropriate and required : believing trust, trusting faith. ↗

— Hans Küng

#faith #historical #traditional #trust #attitude