politics

"Spinoza, when confronting political themes , founds a nonmystified form of democracy. In other words, he poses the problem of democracy on the terrain of materialism and therefore as a critique of eve…"

"What was it like to be governor?"

"I grew up in a town where everyone cared about one another because everyone knew one another, not as statistics in a government program but as neighbors in need. Is that nostalgic? I don't think so."

"My Political Plans", an essay by Smith"

"Fascists have an agenda that is primarily economic. As the Free Dictionary notes, fascism/corporatism is “an attempt to create a 'modern' version of feudalism by merging the 'corporate' interests with…"

"Six Lectures on Political Economy"

"Photo at National Portrait Gallery"

"The government of the Israelites was a, held together by no political authority, but by the unity of... faith and founded not on physical force but on a voluntary covenant. The principle of self-gover…"

"It is only by the amplification of titles that you can often touch and satisfy the imagination of nations; and that is an element which Governments must not despise."

"overnmental action that burdens groups effectively excluded from the process is constitutionally suspect. In its most sophisticated form, the resulting judicial scrutiny is seen as a way of invalidati…"

"The invasion of Iraq was tragic for the people of that country but for the British political elite it is as though it never happened."

"Don't listen to those who speak of democracy. They all are against Islam. They want to take the nation away from its mission. We will break all the poison pens of those who speak of nationalism, democ…"

"less conventional member of the squirearchy... a political radical, reforming county magistrate and idiosyncratic historian of religions."

"Meher Baba's statements on Krishna"

"Socrates at Washington State University"

"In a democracy, the search for the truth and the right to peaceably assembly and petition government for redress of grievances should co-exist. These rights are not mutually exclusive and both should …"

"We could, of course, hold elections in Iraq, hand over power and go home. But elections do not produce democracy. Consider Russia, where Vladimir Putin was elected but rules like an autocrat. He has f…"

"America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy."

"The absence of Dad creates the presence of government."

"It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system."