Political Writer

🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi

Politics

nonviolence

1869–1948

""The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.""

🇫🇷Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy

Existentialism

1905–1980

"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."

🇺🇸Noam Chomsky

Philosophy

atheism

b. 1928

"Roughly speaking, states are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power..."

🇺🇸Barack Obama

Politics

b. 1961

"When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s."

🇮🇱Benjamin Netanyahu

Politics

b. 1949

"I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans — in grief, as in defiance."

🇺🇸Medea Benjamin

Politics

b. 1952

"Cuban doctors arrive in Martinique to fight coronavirus. "The only thing that motivates us is to save lives, that's the most important thing in the eyes of a Cuban doctor.” That’s why they could get the Nobel Prize."

🇺🇸Abbie Hoffman

Politics

1936–1989

"Dealing, although dangerous, is a tax-free way of surviving even though it borders on work."

Thomas Bracken

Literature

1843–1898

"Give me, give me God's own country! there to live and there to die,"

🇺🇸Naomi Wolf

Journalism

b. 1962

"The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance."

🇺🇸Ralph Nader

Politics

b. 1934

"Unlike members of Congress, Big Business knew what the WTO agreements contained. That's because corporate lobbyists helped draft them."

Jamal Khashoggi

Journalism

1958–2018

"We are going through a major economic transformation that is supported by the people, a transformation that will free us from total dependence on oil and restore a culture of work and production."

🇳🇿Trevor Loudon

Politics

anti-communism

"Trevor Loudon's articles at the Epoch Times"

William Cobbett

Politics

1763–1835

"All that I can boast of in my birth, is, that I was born in Old England."

"There is something deeply troubling about a culture which makes humans into gods, and which puts people on pedestals to be worshipped. For, it glosses over all blemishes in its quest for the godly."

🇮🇪George Galloway

Politics

b. 1954

"Some believe that those aeroplanes on September 11 came out of a clear blue sky. I believe they came out of a swamp of hatred created by us."