#pol

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#political #sanctions #serious #tied #would

I am not a fan of politics. ↗

— Chris Kyle

#fan #i #i am #politics

There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. ↗

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr.

#atheism #atheist #biology #cosmology #guessing

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#admires #after #centuries #conservative #dead

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deny #disaster #how #insecure #least

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#atom #atom bomb #basis #bomb #cities

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons. ↗

— Tim Roth

#compare #comparisons #how #i #kubrick

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#haven #i #left #like #misrepresented

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#ends #flute #genius #good #had

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#body #born #carries #causes #destruction