#political

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#contagion #countries #currency #european #eurozone

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#clever man #commit #crime #ever #half-wits

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#change #change the world #create #energy #good

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

#activities #against #arrested #been #both

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hopes #judgment #learn #manipulation #merely

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#exclusively #exile #ideological #moral #motivated

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions. ↗

— Edith Rogers

#cannot #convictions #doubt #elected #groups

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#arose #art #became #course #marxism

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#american #american history #begin #constitution #conventions

But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial. ↗

— Aristide Briand

#am #any #association #beneficial #could