"The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political"
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"It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave."
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"It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners.""
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"[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office."
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"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president."
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"If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women."
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"In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization."
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"We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice."
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"I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship."
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"You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring."
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"I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that."
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"I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy."
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"I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can."
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"The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion."
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"Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations."
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"From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase."
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"As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression."
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"Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue."
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"Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them."
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"Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech."
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