War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret AtwoodI should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
Nelson MandelaWe can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Ronald ReaganA life of stasis would be population control, combined with energy rationing. That is the stasis world that you live in if you stay. And even with improvements in efficiency, you’ll still have to ration energy. That, to me, doesn’t sound like a very exciting civilization for our grandchildren’s grandchildren to live in.
Jeff BezosIn a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund BurkeThe United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.
Herbert HooverAt one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.
Maya AngelouI have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam ChomskyWhen one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
VoltaireWe should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
Narendra ModiDictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
PlatoWe are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Stephen HawkingAll History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Alice WalkerLaw is always better than war.
Brian EnoWhenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.
George LucasTyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
PlatoIt is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George OrwellOf all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. LewisLearn to think continentally.
Alexander HamiltonAn election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George EliotMore understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
Jackie ChanI consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‚Democracy in America‘ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
Kurt VonnegutThe fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.
Michelle ObamaThe problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.
Margaret ThatcherIt has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston ChurchillOn balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
Jimmy CarterLibertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
Noam ChomskyCertainly I’ll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I’ve gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
Bill GatesWe should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
Narendra ModiThe human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl MarxBy improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
Bill GatesOur single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
Nelson MandelaYou cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
Noam ChomskyAs we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.
Russell M. NelsonWhen the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.
Abraham LincolnInformation helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.
Maya AngelouDemocracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
AristotleIt is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. ClarkeLet us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. KennedyA disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund BurkeCertainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.
Jane GoodallYou can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
Jimmy CarterIn various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.
Thomas SowellThe government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore RooseveltA world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret ThatcherI think that once you fully understand the climate and ecological emergencies, then you know what you can do as well. And, of course, there’s a lot of things you can do in your everyday life, but we cannot be focusing on these individual things you can do. We have to see the full picture.
Greta ThunbergYou’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.
Colin PowellYou can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.
George W. BushDemocracy is the road to socialism.
Karl MarxIf liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
AristotleWar is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Niccolo MachiavelliWith the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.
Noam ChomskyIn Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James MadisonTake the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will RogersI’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘
Maya AngelouIf you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.
Kevin Hart