"Envy creates the beginning of strife."
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"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."
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"I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue."
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"Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot with T.V. preachers (many have minds made of cabbage) but it can also happen with political ideology. When you're young it's easy to drift into loyalties and when you announce that you're a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you're doing is pounding it in, pounding it in, and you're gradually ruining your mind. So you want to be very, very careful of this ideology. It's a big danger."
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"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
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"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic."
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"The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual."
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"All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter."
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"Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument."
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"Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement from the social perspective. Capital in these cases has not been protected in any way which along with non - interference of the state is what neo liberalism stands for. It has gone the other way around; they have looked for social policies from the political movements and then when they have acquired the power of those political movements they have become in charge of the State."
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"In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature."
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"The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time."
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".. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition."
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"The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations."
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"Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police."
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"Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes."
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"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
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"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."
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"I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying it's a good way to ruin your life."
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"Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly."
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