politics

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."

"The Government is about to introduce a new test for those considering a university career. The central question will be punishingly direct. Do you want to run up a debt of £21,000 in order to go to th…"

"America had declared war with Spain.... It did not require much political wisdom to see that America's concern was a matter of sugar and had nothing to do with humanitarian feelings. Of course there w…"

"Wendell Berry Academy of American Poets"

"Markets can be efficient or inefficient; so can governments. thus market failure is a counterpoint to government failure."

"Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy."

"Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs."

"Governments have meddled incessantly with money, which in our time has been the fruitful parent of intricate discussions and painful changes."

"‘... what I’ve tried to allow is for the essay to be a space in which the consciousness which reads poetry or remembers a line of poetry or listens to music or goes for a walk, is also the consciousne…"

"No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and con…"

"hat seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition."

"Wellington's Military and Political Career"

"Some states, e.g. "pregnant", are all-or-none, no intermediates. But sexual abuse has shades of grey, from violent buggery to mild touching."

"I do not choose to run for President in 1928."

"Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where t…"

"Sylvia Plath at the Academy of American Poets site"

"Everywhere, men resign themselves to the most extreme sacrifices rather than do without government and hence security, without realizing that in so doing, they misjudge their alternatives."

"How can a man be said to have a country where he has no right to a square inch of soil..."

"With Donald Trump as the presumptive presidential nominee, we are witnessing a populist hijacking of one of the United States' great political parties... ooted in ignorance, prejudice, fear and isolat…"

"Both of Belle Jarniewski's parents survived the Holocaust, but each endured tragedy because Canada refused to open its doors to Jews fleeing Nazis, she told CBC. She says her parents experienced "grea…"