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“...even after all of this, my saying the truth out loud is not enough to prove who I am to a world that doesn't believe me.”
― Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

“I bought forty-two more AR-15 magazines last week. I didn’t need them. I’ve already got shelves full for my rifles. I just bought them on principle because Congress said I shouldn’t have them.”
― Larry Correia, In Defense of the Second Amendment

“Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of production" is off-limits to politics in our society.”
― Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

“He tried very hard not to do anyone great evil and mostly succeeded. He also tried very hard to do great works, but, unfortunately, he didn't succeed so well at that. The result was a very mediocre King; he doubted if he would be remembered long after he was dead.”
― Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

“Democracy only works when everyone in it has a say, good or bad. If you sit on your hands, the others get the say. It is an everlasting fight and one that should be everyone's concern.”
― Bernice Dietrich, Lady Slippers

“those who were getting so much money from Caesar urged the senate to give him money as if he had none, nay rather, they forced it to do so, though it groaned over its own decrees.”
― Plutarch, The Complete Works of Plutarch. Illustrated: Parallel Lives. Moralia

“People are always asking me why I chose Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson to write about. Well, I must say I never thought of my books as the stories of Moses or Johnson. I never had the slightest interest in writing the life of a great man. From the very start, I thought of writing biographies as a means of illuminating the times of the men I was writing about and the great forces that molded those times—particularly the force that is political power.”
― Robert A. Caro, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

“Politicians are like child services, he thinks. Ultimately useful, but a pain in the ass all the way there.”
― Dot Hutchinson

“This tendency to see politics as a conveyor belt on which conservatives fall off and liberals stay on reflects how progressives see the world. Rather than see politics and human nature as what they are - unpredictable, chaotic, messy and volatile - the new elite believe they are on a linear path towards ‘progressâ€�, that history will only ever bend in their direction.”
― Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics

“To effect government directives on a lot of people or direct the people in the right way that the government needs, one simple way, which has been used for years already in many countries, is the invention of enemies to create fear. Usually, this strategy is most welcomed and believed by the majority of the non-enlightened, and unread population of the society such as terrorists, racists, religious bigots, and similar others.”
― Veronica Braila, Blue House: Ten Years on The Way Home

“It is better for Russia or Ukraine because they know who their enemies are and who they are fighting .
Us we don’t know who our enemies are , but they keep on fighting us from within.
They are using our people. They are using our resources.
They are using our intelligence’s. They are using our media.
They are using our platform. They are using our parliament.
They are using our constitution. They are using our buildings.
They are using our court. They had infiltrated us. We had been compromised.
They are within us. They are now one of our own. our NGO’s, our foundations, our political parties, our Media houses , our journalists , our institutions, our politicians, and our analysts.
That is why we have internal wars that never ends but results into factions and sabotaging.
These Internal battles are started by these agents of destruction. These hired guns or spies within us.
There are there to break the system, cause confusion, dysfunction, destabilization, chaos ,spread propaganda and to promote divisive politics. They are there to poison the minds of our people. Our enemies are next to us. We see them and great them everyday. While they are plotting against us .
Judas Iscariot is not the only one to sell his friend and he won’t be the last.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“When all politics is rooted in partisanism, political science is but animal science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Students at the University now lose a class for not being familiar with opinions, which but twenty years ago they would have been expelled for dreaming of.”
― William Hurrell Mallock, Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book

“Simply because someone can give us a host of convincing reasons why something will work does not mean that the thing that they advocate for ever worked or ever will. What did work however, was their ability to distract us from what actually does work.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The cancel culture is born of the inability of an opinion to withstand the scrutiny of thoughtful debate. And as such, this statement is likely to be canceled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What looks to be the cleanest political party, for a period, will often prove to be the filthiest in the end. Just like any form of corruption, this one plays dirty. It drags its enemies through the mud and scrubs itself clean before morning. It throws rocks and hides its hands. It gains power by all methods but the Truth: on the one hand, by pandering, flattery, and appeasement (quite like Satan, 'the father of lies'); and on the other, by deception and ruthlessness, constantly slinging accusations and smearing its opponents - posing as an angel of light (quite like Satan, 'the accuser') - and doing it hypocritically. It projects, gaslights, intimidates, manipulates, and confuses its subjects into adopting the narrative that it is the intellectually and morally superior party. Believing itself the greater good, and the ends justifying the means, it is able to persist in these things and sleep well doing them. Therefore in the rags of politics, because of this party, it is often the case that individuals painted as villains by the media are heroes in reality.”
― Criss Jami

“If a country that has gone through dark days is still making big mistakes for the continuation of dark days, then the following thing will happen: Darkness will intensify to the point of extinction, and eventually lights will rise from a total wreckage.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Harold thought how weird and strange it must be to be a girl. He was glad he wasn’t one because he didn’t think he would be able to do that. Or he wouldn’t want to do that. It’s probably good that you are what you are and that’s it. You don’t get to be both then choose after testing them out. This was in the 1960s not like many many years later when it would become like going through a sexual identity salad bar.

Wright, Steven. Harold (pp. 21-22). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition.”
― Steven Wright, Harold

“Today, most countries fail to comply with the 1951 Convention. Signatory states in the developed world find ever more elaborate ways to disregard or bypass the principle of non-refoulement, adopting a suite of deterrence or non-entrée policies that make it difficut and dangerous for refugees to access their territory: carrier sanctions, razor wire fences, interception en route. Signatory states in the developing world do tend to admit refugees more because of geoghraphical necessity and international pressure than law, and when they do, they still almost universally fail to implement the socio-economic rights in the Convention. And, yet, paradoxically, many of the most generous host countries in the world are not even full signatories: Jordan, Lebanon, Thailand, Nepal, and Turkey, for instance.”
― Alexander Betts, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

“I didn't seem threatened, as they were, by the idea that the rest of the world was catching up to us.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“The conferences convened to 'do something' about the refugee crisis - from the World Humanitarian Summit to the UN High-Level Meeting on Addressing Large Scale Movements of Refugees and Migrants - are ritual re-enactments that changed times have drained of real consequence.”
― Alexander Betts, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

“Politics don't suffer from corruption. Politics is corruption.”
― Thomas Sheridan

“Politics is not about personal ambition, but about the collective aspirations of a nation. True leadership lies in serving the people with integrity, empathy, and a commitment to positive change.”
― Vikrant Adams, Bishop's Insight : Wisdom for the Political Sphere

“There are signs of hope, even if they are small and inconstant. Illiberal populists, as it turns out, are pretty lousy at governing, especially during a crisis that demands a steady and stoic engagement with science. In the United States, in particular, voters saw a mismanaged pandemic become a politicized catastrophe that eventually inflicted a 9/11-level death toll almost every day, and as of this writing has killed more Americans than combat in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam combined.”
― Tom Nichols, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy

“But if I am certain of anything, it is that it is well within our power as citizens to return to a more civic and more confident democratic life, if we so choose. We do not have to remain slaves to our anger and our fears. We do not have to destroy our own traditions and institutions out of rage and resentment. We do not have to live this way. That is why I wrote this book.”
― Tom Nichols, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy

“If a foolishness has brought a country into a terrible dead end, it is not a virtue or an honour to turn back from that stupidity because there is no alternative to going forward!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The herd is the larger mass, the mindless portion that wanders off the cliff; the mob is the subset and the moshpit that pushes the ones that resist.”
― Criss Jami

“To think that we can invent the truth to serve our agenda is to invent something that can’t be invented in order to serve an agenda that we shouldn’t be embracing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He gazed around in near despair. Where he had never had an issue with so-called free time, he was suddenly lost without his research; torn between uncompromising tenderness for Lyra and Jyn and a sense of burden in being able to provide a flawless future for them.
The Vallt he missed no longer existed; nor did the Coruscant he and Lyra had left more than a standard year earlier. Despite the changes war had brought to the Core it might still be possible for them to ride out the conflict here. Even if it meant avoiding HoloNet news reports and steering clear of conversations about war and politics. Surely they could manage that much. Perhaps the war would end as abruptly as it had begun and life would return to normal—or at least to what had been considered normal beforehand.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst

“What do you mean, a referendum? If the people say yes, then it's a yes. If they say no, then the people didn't think hard enough. Let the people think again.”
― Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033