"The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet."
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"The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can."
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"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."
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"For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests."
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"Voting is the foundation stone for political action."
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"Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems."
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"...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone."
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"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."
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"There is no index of character so sure as the voice."
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"The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture."
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"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
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"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."
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"We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly."
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"Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place."
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"On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space."
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"We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I amcontent with the narrowest metes and bounds provided I have peace and quiet for work."
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"I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy."
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"I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."
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"To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another."
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"Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings."
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