Political Sayings

For in the books of the Gentiles, and of the Saracens, and of all unbelievers, there is much that is useful for the understanding of the Scriptures, and for the government of the world, and for the correction of morals, as well as for the sciences.

I can only say, that I am a Citizen of America, and an Officer of the Army: That I am therefore precluded from the enjoyment of that Liberty, which can only be derived from a free Government.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders, have happened only because of a simple lack of logic.

The internet is the most democratic thing that's ever happened in the history of civilization. And the most democratizing force in the history of civilization.

I am a Christian, and of course what I write is, of course, Christian. I mean, I don't mean that I've tried to make it Christian at all, it's not Christian in that sense. It's not propaganda. It is a story, and the Christian element is in it of cours…

I'm not a politician. I'm a basketball player. I'm a Black man, an American citizen, a father, a husband, and a son. And the most important thing is for us to continue to use our platform to spread a lot of joy, a lot of love, and a lot of hope.

It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of black against white, or as a purely American problem. Instead, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the…

Until you start focusing on what needs to be done rather than what is politically possible, there is no hope. We can't solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis.

Here, then: a revolution [in science and chemistry] has taken place in an important part of human knowledge since your departure from Europe… I will consider this revolution to be well advanced and even completely accomplished if you range yourself w…

The narrative designed for internal consumption was fiction moulded around a kernel of fact: the pharaoh was indeed cut off from his army, he did face a chariot onslaught while outnumbered, and he did inflict casualties. He lost, but so what? As poli…

Unfortunately, there are no documented controversial, provocative, offensive, politically incorrect, or divisive quotes from Al-Khwarizmi. His surviving works are primarily mathematical and astronomical treatises, which do not typically contain such …

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and cultural models of behavior and information processing. They op…