"Put no faith in salvation through the political order."
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"Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership."
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"I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse."
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"By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace."
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"There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, we must face the cultural contradiction of capitalism: the progress of capitalism, which necessitates a consumer culture, undermines the values which render capitalism possible"
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"I love being able to be political without any political affiliation."
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"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."
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"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
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"I'm a far cry from politically correct, because I don't really care what the political views are. I don't care what the people say. I'll say my opinion. That will always make you controversial."
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"the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant."
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"I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest."
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"In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people."
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"Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose."
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"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
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"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
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"The essence of lying is in deception, not in words."
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"The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be."
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"I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy."
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"Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage."
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"In politics, nothing is contemptible."
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