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Politics is the process by which groups of people, often with conflicting interests and values, make collective decisions and allocate resources, striving for power and influence within a defined system. It is profoundly meaningful because it shapes the very fabric of our societies, determining our rights, freedoms, and the quality of our lives by influencing everything from healthcare and education to economic opportunity and international relations.
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# Politics & Themes
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Context: • William Hazlitt, From 'Common Places' (1823): vol. 20, p. 122, in The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P. P. Howe (London and Toronto, 1930-4)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (H)
“Liberty is the only true riches.”
— Unknown
Politics
ThemesU
Context: • Attributed to Benjamin Franklin; A New Dictionary of Quotations (1942) by H. L. Mencken, p. 682 gives "Where liberty dwells, there is my country," with a note that this was in a Franklin letter to Benjamin Vaughan, March 14, 1783, but the on-going project, Papers of Benjamin Franklin, has been unable to identify this letter. Alfred Owen Aldridge, Man of Reason, p. 169 (1959) says, "According to a tradition repeated by many biographers of Paine, Franklin at one time remarked in his hearing: 'Where liberty is, there is my country….'" Aldridge adds, "the story must be written off as apocryphal." Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed., p. 367 (1982), attributes this to James Otis, as his motto (Ubi libertas, ibi patria), but this has not been verified in either his speeches or biographical sources. It has also been attributed to Algernon Sidney, but has not been verified in any source.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (F)
“Where liberty is, there is my country.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York City (9 September 1912)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (W)
“Liberty is its own reward.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Lucy Parsons, The Principles of Anarchism, lecture printed without date of publication sometime in the 1890s
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (P)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (P)
“Order can only exist where liberty prevails.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Ch. VIII, Section XXI
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (R)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Liberty" (R)
“That treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.”
— Unknown
# Politics & Semiotics
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Context: • Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values (1956, 1965).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)
“Dissent is the mark of freedom.”
— Unknown
Discourse
SemioticsU
Context: • Various; misattributed to Thomas Jefferson.Discussion at urbanlegends.about.com/b/2005/02/15/misattributed-dissent-is-the-highest-form-of-patriotism.htm (Misattributed: Dissent is the highest form of patriotism)
• Earliest source The Use of Force in International Affairs, (Philadelphia: Friends Peace Committee, 1961), 6, and popularized by various users in the 1960s:Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
• If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
• Other form by Howard Zinn, Dissent In Pursuit Of Equality, Life, Liberty And Happiness: An Interview With Historian Howard Zinn by Sharon Basco, TomPaine.com, July 03 2002:
• While some people think that dissent is unpatriotic, I would argue that dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)
• Earliest source The Use of Force in International Affairs, (Philadelphia: Friends Peace Committee, 1961), 6, and popularized by various users in the 1960s:Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
• If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
• Other form by Howard Zinn, Dissent In Pursuit Of Equality, Life, Liberty And Happiness: An Interview With Historian Howard Zinn by Sharon Basco, TomPaine.com, July 03 2002:
• While some people think that dissent is unpatriotic, I would argue that dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Steve Sailer, "World War T", Taki's Magazine, January 22, 2014
• Source: Wikiquote: "Political correctness" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Political correctness" (Quotes)
“Political correctness is a war on noticing.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edward R. Murrow, See It Now, broadcast of 9 March 1954 on CBS TV.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Quoted by Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet, J., Manby v. Scott (1672), 1 Levinz. 4; 2 Sm. L. C. (8th Ed.) 462.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Persuasion" (Quotes:
Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author, S - Z)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Persuasion" (Quotes:
Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author, S - Z)
“'Tis more than reason that goes to persuasion.”
— Unknown
Philosophy
Psychology# Politics & Articles deleted on the English Wikipedia
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (United States)
“"Kill the Bill"”
— Unknown
Listspolitical catch phrases
Articles deleted on the English WikipediaU
Context: • "Auch Sie können nicht verhindern, dass ich von Tag zu Tag klüger werde!" (You can't impede my getting wiser day by day.) Konrad AdenauerHartmut Soell: Ideologien und politischer Pragmatismus, edited by Bavarian State Center For Political Education accessed 2009-01-03 – This sentence is often mixed up with the following:
• "Was geht mich mein dummes Geschwätz von vorgestern an!" (What do I care about my yesterday's waffle.) Theodor Heuss
• "Maß halten" (Don't overdo it.) Ludwig Erhard's warning against an overheating economy in the 1960sDie Soziale Marktwirtschaft – Ludwig Erhard und das Wirtschaftswunder, accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wir wollen mehr Demokratie wagen." (We want to dare more democracy.) Willy Brandt on the plans of the social-liberal coalitionDeutscher Bundestag: 1969 "Mehr Demokratie wagen", accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." (Those who have visions should consult a doctor) Helmut Schmidt about his predecessor Willi Brandthttp://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt, accessed 2009-11-14.
• "Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch." (With all due respect, Mr. President, you are an asshole.) Joschka FischerPolitiker-Beschimpfungen : 'Arschlöcher' und 'Arrogante Affen ..., accessed 2008-5-26.. He thus addressed the parliament's president after the latter excluded an MP from the debate over an allegation.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
• "Was geht mich mein dummes Geschwätz von vorgestern an!" (What do I care about my yesterday's waffle.) Theodor Heuss
• "Maß halten" (Don't overdo it.) Ludwig Erhard's warning against an overheating economy in the 1960sDie Soziale Marktwirtschaft – Ludwig Erhard und das Wirtschaftswunder, accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wir wollen mehr Demokratie wagen." (We want to dare more democracy.) Willy Brandt on the plans of the social-liberal coalitionDeutscher Bundestag: 1969 "Mehr Demokratie wagen", accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." (Those who have visions should consult a doctor) Helmut Schmidt about his predecessor Willi Brandthttp://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt, accessed 2009-11-14.
• "Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch." (With all due respect, Mr. President, you are an asshole.) Joschka FischerPolitiker-Beschimpfungen : 'Arschlöcher' und 'Arrogante Affen ..., accessed 2008-5-26.. He thus addressed the parliament's president after the latter excluded an MP from the debate over an allegation.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
“West-Germany 1949-1990”
— Unknown
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Context: • "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten." (No one intends to build a wall.) Walter Ulbricht, 1961-06-15, less than two months before the Berlin Wall was builtWalter Ulbricht: „Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten, accessed 2008-5-26. Archived 2009-11-01.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
“East-Germany 1949-1990”
— Unknown
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Context: • "Ich kenne keine Partei mehr, ich kenne nur Deutsche!" (I no longer know of [political] party, I only know Germans) Wilhelm II 1914 in a speech at the parliament, referencing the endorsement of the war by the formerly shunned Social Democrats 4. August 1914; in: Verhandlungen des Reichstags, Stenographische Berichte, 1914/16, Bd. 306, 1f.''
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
“Imperial Germany 1871-1918”
— Unknown
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Context: • "Wirtschaft ist für die Menschen da, und nicht umgekehrt, und Demokratie gehört bei die Wirtschaft mit bei." (The economy is for the people, and not vice versa, and economy is a part of democracy.) Franz MünteferingFranz Müntefering, Generalsekretär der SPD: Liebe Genossinnen und ..., accessed 2008-5-26. The second part of the compound sentence contains a "folksy" grammatical error that is impossible to translate into English.
• "Ich bin schwul, und das ist auch gut so!" (I am gay, and it's fine this way.) Klaus Wowereit, phrasing his coming outCity Mayors: Klaus Wowereit – Mayor of Berlin, accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wir schaffen das" (we can handle this) Angela Merkel, the then-Chancellor of Germany, during the 2015 European migrant crisis.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
• "Ich bin schwul, und das ist auch gut so!" (I am gay, and it's fine this way.) Klaus Wowereit, phrasing his coming outCity Mayors: Klaus Wowereit – Mayor of Berlin, accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wir schaffen das" (we can handle this) Angela Merkel, the then-Chancellor of Germany, during the 2015 European migrant crisis.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
“Berlin Republic 1990-present”
— Unknown
# Politics & Discourse
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Context: • Carlos Diaz Ruiz, Disinformation and Echo Chambers: How Disinformation Circulates on Social Media Through Identity-Driven Controversies, 2023: 29
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fake news" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fake news" (Quotes)
“One can fact-check news, but not beliefs.”
— Unknown
JournalismU
Context: • Adam-Troy Castro, Emissaries from the Dead (2008), , p. 58
• Source: Wikiquote: "Diplomacy" (Quotes, C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Diplomacy" (Quotes, C)
“Assassination is just diplomacy by other means.”
— Unknown
International relationsU
Context: • As quoted by Paul A. Goble, "Putin has Arrested So Many But Can’t Stop a Terrorist Attack, Russians Say after Crocus Action", Window on Eurasia (March 26, 2024)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dissent" (Quotes)
“I dissent; therefore, I exist.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Zhou Enlai, Saturday Evening Post (27 March 1954); this is a play upon the famous maxim of Clausewitz: "War is the continuation of politics by other means".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Diplomacy" (Quotes, Z)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Diplomacy" (Quotes, Z)
“All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Scott Ritter, in Chris Davis, "Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc.", Memphis Flyer (May 3, 2008).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Diplomacy" (Quotes, R)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Diplomacy" (Quotes, R)
“I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.”
— Unknown
# Politics & Sociology
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Context: • Millicent Fawcett in an address to the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solidarity" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solidarity" (Quotes)
“Courage calls to courage everywhere.”
— Unknown
SociologyU
Context: • Aristophanes in: Leaders and Leadership, Xlibris Corporation, 22 September 2010, p. 139
• Source: Wikiquote: "Persuasion" (Quotes:
Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author, A - F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Persuasion" (Quotes:
Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author, A - F)
“Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Christian Laval and Pierre Dardot, The pandemic as political trial: the case for a global commons (March 28, 2020), ROAR Magazine
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solidarity" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solidarity" (Quotes)
“The public service is a principle of social solidarity.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Chico Mendes, quoted in Full Circle Power, Hope and the Return of Nature.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Class conflict" (M)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Class conflict" (M)
“Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.”
— Unknown
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“Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.”
— Unknown
BeliefMore Quotes
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (United States)
“"Kill the Bill"”
— Unknown
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Context: • George Orwell, a slogan of the dystopian state in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom" (O)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom" (O)
“Freedom is slavery”
— Unknown
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Context: • Anonymous. Reported as an "old saying" in Edgar George Holt, Politics is People (1969), Foreword
• Source: Wikiquote: "Politics" (A)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Politics" (A)
“Politics is people.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Pythagoras. Advice against political voting, which was done by means of beans. See Lucian Gallus, IV. 5. Vitarum Auctio. Sect. 6. The superstition against beans was prevalent in Egypt however. See Herodotus, II. 37, also Sextus Empiricus. Explanations to abstain from beans from lost treatise of Aristotle in Diog. Laertes, VIII. 34. Beans had an oligarchical character on account of their use in voting. Plutarch gives a similar explanation in De Educat, Chapter XVII. Caution against entering public life, for the votes by which magistrates were elected were originally given by beans. Pythagoras referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Holy Living. Section IV, p. 80.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Politics" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 610-13.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Politics" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 610-13.)
“Abstain from beans.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Gary Johnson, in an interview with CNBC´s John Harwood http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/22/libertarian-candidate-gary-johnson-says-most-of-gop-right-now-is-me.html (August 22, 2016).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Politics" (J)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Politics" (J)
“Politics is momentum.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Marc Champion, in "Cool War", Bloomberg (14 December 2014; updated on 20 March 2018)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Cold War II" (Russia–The West relations, Quotes from other journalists and columnists)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Cold War II" (Russia–The West relations, Quotes from other journalists and columnists)
“Is the Cold War back?”
— Unknown
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Context: • "Auch Sie können nicht verhindern, dass ich von Tag zu Tag klüger werde!" (You can't impede my getting wiser day by day.) Konrad AdenauerHartmut Soell: Ideologien und politischer Pragmatismus, edited by Bavarian State Center For Political Education accessed 2009-01-03 – This sentence is often mixed up with the following:
• "Was geht mich mein dummes Geschwätz von vorgestern an!" (What do I care about my yesterday's waffle.) Theodor Heuss
• "Maß halten" (Don't overdo it.) Ludwig Erhard's warning against an overheating economy in the 1960sDie Soziale Marktwirtschaft – Ludwig Erhard und das Wirtschaftswunder, accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wir wollen mehr Demokratie wagen." (We want to dare more democracy.) Willy Brandt on the plans of the social-liberal coalitionDeutscher Bundestag: 1969 "Mehr Demokratie wagen", accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." (Those who have visions should consult a doctor) Helmut Schmidt about his predecessor Willi Brandthttp://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt, accessed 2009-11-14.
• "Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch." (With all due respect, Mr. President, you are an asshole.) Joschka FischerPolitiker-Beschimpfungen : 'Arschlöcher' und 'Arrogante Affen ..., accessed 2008-5-26.. He thus addressed the parliament's president after the latter excluded an MP from the debate over an allegation.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
• "Was geht mich mein dummes Geschwätz von vorgestern an!" (What do I care about my yesterday's waffle.) Theodor Heuss
• "Maß halten" (Don't overdo it.) Ludwig Erhard's warning against an overheating economy in the 1960sDie Soziale Marktwirtschaft – Ludwig Erhard und das Wirtschaftswunder, accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wir wollen mehr Demokratie wagen." (We want to dare more democracy.) Willy Brandt on the plans of the social-liberal coalitionDeutscher Bundestag: 1969 "Mehr Demokratie wagen", accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." (Those who have visions should consult a doctor) Helmut Schmidt about his predecessor Willi Brandthttp://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt, accessed 2009-11-14.
• "Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch." (With all due respect, Mr. President, you are an asshole.) Joschka FischerPolitiker-Beschimpfungen : 'Arschlöcher' und 'Arrogante Affen ..., accessed 2008-5-26.. He thus addressed the parliament's president after the latter excluded an MP from the debate over an allegation.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
“West-Germany 1949-1990”
— Unknown
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Context: • "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten." (No one intends to build a wall.) Walter Ulbricht, 1961-06-15, less than two months before the Berlin Wall was builtWalter Ulbricht: „Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten, accessed 2008-5-26. Archived 2009-11-01.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
“East-Germany 1949-1990”
— Unknown
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Context: • "For freedom" or "For liberty"
• Motto of the clan Wallace (also reputed to be the last words of William Wallace)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom" (W)
• Motto of the clan Wallace (also reputed to be the last words of William Wallace)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom" (W)
“Pro libertate”
— Unknown
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Context: • Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana (2011)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Demagogue" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Demagogue" (Quotes)
“Freedom is a demagogue.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Marc A. Thiessen, in "Putin’s interference in our election clearly backfired", Washington Post (3 August 2017)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Cold War II" (Russia–The West relations, Quotes from other journalists and columnists)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Cold War II" (Russia–The West relations, Quotes from other journalists and columnists)
“We are in a new Cold War.”
— Unknown
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Context: • "Ich kenne keine Partei mehr, ich kenne nur Deutsche!" (I no longer know of [political] party, I only know Germans) Wilhelm II 1914 in a speech at the parliament, referencing the endorsement of the war by the formerly shunned Social Democrats 4. August 1914; in: Verhandlungen des Reichstags, Stenographische Berichte, 1914/16, Bd. 306, 1f.''
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
“Imperial Germany 1871-1918”
— Unknown
“Divide et impera.”
— Divide And Rule
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Context: • Benjamin Disraeli, speech at Oxford (Nov. 25, 1864).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Political parties" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Political parties" (Quotes)
“Party is organized opinion.”
— Unknown
Political partiesU
Context: • Vishva Hindu Parishad slogan (1990), quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Secularism in India" (Quotes, V)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Secularism in India" (Quotes, V)
“Hindu India, Secular India.”
— Unknown
Religion in India
Secularism
Politics of IndiaU
Context: • "Wirtschaft ist für die Menschen da, und nicht umgekehrt, und Demokratie gehört bei die Wirtschaft mit bei." (The economy is for the people, and not vice versa, and economy is a part of democracy.) Franz MünteferingFranz Müntefering, Generalsekretär der SPD: Liebe Genossinnen und ..., accessed 2008-5-26. The second part of the compound sentence contains a "folksy" grammatical error that is impossible to translate into English.
• "Ich bin schwul, und das ist auch gut so!" (I am gay, and it's fine this way.) Klaus Wowereit, phrasing his coming outCity Mayors: Klaus Wowereit – Mayor of Berlin, accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wir schaffen das" (we can handle this) Angela Merkel, the then-Chancellor of Germany, during the 2015 European migrant crisis.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
• "Ich bin schwul, und das ist auch gut so!" (I am gay, and it's fine this way.) Klaus Wowereit, phrasing his coming outCity Mayors: Klaus Wowereit – Mayor of Berlin, accessed 2008-5-26.
• "Wir schaffen das" (we can handle this) Angela Merkel, the then-Chancellor of Germany, during the 2015 European migrant crisis.
• Source: Wikiquote: "List of political catchphrases" (Germany)
“Berlin Republic 1990-present”
— Unknown
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Context: • Quoted by Kevin Liptak (2020-01-20), Trump departs Washington a pariah as his era in power ends, publisher: CNN
• Source: Wikiquote: "Presidency of Donald Trump" (Quotes, Post-presidency (2021–2025))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Presidency of Donald Trump" (Quotes, Post-presidency (2021–2025))
“We will be back in some form”
— Unknown
Donald Trump
Politics of the United States
Presidency of Donald Trump
Context: • Vyacheslav Molotov, (Soviet Foreign Minister 1939 to 1949 and 1953 to 1956) in Communism and the Conscience of the West, Fulton J. Sheen, Bobbs–Merrill, (1948) p. 115.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fascism" (M)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fascism" (M)
“Fascism is a matter of taste.”
— Fascism
FascismG
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax" (Quotes, Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750): Text online, Moral Thoughts and Reflections)
“Weak men are apt to be cruel.”
— George Savile
Authors
1695 deathsU
Context: • Joseph Gurney Cannon, maxim indicating that in life and politics the things detested today may be praised tomorrow. Quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement, The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, March 4, 1923.—Congressional Record, March 4, 1923, vol. 64, p. 5714. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, who was Speaker of the House 1903–1911, served in the House for 46 years.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Politics" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Politics" (C)
“The pendulum will swing back.”
— Unknown
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