I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because the viewer wants to create a type of narrative around the political theme when they look at work depicting black and brown models.
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics -- we need more good ideas. We don't need more point-scoring -- we need more problem-solving.
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
Once you have some sort of reputation in the outside world, they will try to woo you. They will say, "Won't you come and be on a talk program about books? That's not political. " Then they can say to the outside world, "See how free it is, she appears on television. See how free it is. " So I refused to have anything of mine read or dramatized on South African television.
Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories.
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
The latest political rumor, North Korea ruler Kim Jong Il is close to naming his successor. Yeah, he said the only person with glasses big enough to replace me is Nicole Richie.
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.
Our political document shows that we are prepared in the context of a national consensus to accept a state on the lines of the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as the capital and fulfilling the right of return for refugees. That does not mean that this document recognizes the legitimacy of the Israeli occupation. Nor does it mean that we will cede any part of the Palestinian territories.
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.
The Russian ambassador at the United Nations did make some proposals for a political settlement in which Bashar Assad would be slowly eased out. The West dismissed it immediately, and we don't know if it was real, because it didn't come from the Kremlin, and it was informal. But the point is every such proposal is immediately scotched. And you just don't know if they're real.
Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.