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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
― Upton Sinclair
Political
Democracy
Corruption
Upton Sinclair
Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.
― Upton Sinclair
Two
People
Political
Upton Sinclair
If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.
― Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Meinhof
Fire
Car
Political
If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.
― Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Meinhof
Fire
Car
Political
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
― Toni Morrison
Book
Reflection
Political
Toni Morrison
ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Ideas
People
Political
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Truth
Political
Honest
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Government
Political
Ignorant
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Freedom
Judging
Political
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
― Theodore Roosevelt
Country
Political
Immigration
Theodore Roosevelt
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
― Alice Walker
Peace
Ubuntu
Political
Alice Walker
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
― Adnan Pachachi
Adnan Pachachi
Rapidly
Confidence
Political
If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.
― Adnan Pachachi
Adnan Pachachi
Security
Dominated
Political
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