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The language of resistance, of political discourse, is sometimes harsh. But a political speaker must be free to excite his audience.


William Moffitt

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LUCY HOWARD We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and politica...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system tha...
FIDEL CASTRO Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political chan...
JERRY BROWN We must strengthen the ideological and political education of officials and raise their awareness of...
JIANG ZEMIN nobody can disarm the resistance movements without a political resolution.
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TODD BOYD Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It ...
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ROLLO MAY The heads of political blocs will meet on Saturday to discuss the presidency, prime minister and spe...
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JACK CORRIGAN [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political langu...
TAKI THEODORACOPULOS This is a victory of the Palestinian people who voted against the occupation (by Israel in the West ...
ISMAIL HANIYEH Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of langu...
ANNA DEAVERE SMITH Garcia has a strong campaign strategy, an organized political party, and besides, he is a good speak...
BERTRAND DELGADO I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a ...
AYAD AKHTAR William Jordan was a retired professor in the college of education who became well known during his ...
DORSEY SERGENT With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous p...
ANDRZEJ WAJDA The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative t...
BELL HOOKS The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' fro...
AUGUSTE COMTE In China, the government's human rights record deteriorated sharply at the end of 1998 with a crackd...
HAROLD KOH Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be ...
ANNA QUINDLEN Language usage always has a political context.
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ED GILLESPIE In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusi...
BRANDON SANDERSON Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit ...
H.L. MENCKEN Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must ...
JEF I. RICHARDS War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quic...
NICOLA STURGEON The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.
RONALD REAGAN The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pourin...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with p...
GEORGE ORWELL It smacks of a political assassination but the motive is still to be determined.
ROBERT PERSAUD Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implic...
DAVID PRICE Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Bush may be aiming now for the political choice - a choice that's calculated less to mold the Suprem...
BRUCE FEIN His love of himself is getting the better of his political pragmatism.
BERNARD THIBAULT Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one ...
P. J. O'ROURKE The right of political expression does not include an unfettered right to control the composition of...
HENRY HUDSON Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and ...
DAVID T. DELLINGER Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives t...
GEORGE ORWELL Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives ...
GEORGE ORWELL We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the pe...
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JIMMY CARTER Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumptio...
DERRICK JENSEN In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political ...
JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the...
BERNARD BARUCH A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the...
BERNARD M. BARUCH A politician is a man in his natural state
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WOODROW WILSON The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of...
WOODROW WILSON One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgement, and love to revel in our rig...
TIM KREIDER Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven...
KINGSLEY AMIS The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard o...
GERALD R. FORD It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
DAVID HUME It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.
VEDA UPANISHADS It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ...
TERRY EAGLETON But at the same time, the political process must not be interrupted and it is very fragile in Sudan.
ANDREI DENISOV If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
RAYMOND DUNCAN Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA This is a political action, a political sentence. Leaders of leading political parties are behind ba...
ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political...
JOHN DESMOND BERNAL Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientifi...
URSULA K. LEGUIN Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a mo...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Part of his political need is to bridge the gap as a Republican with his upstate base, which may be ...
LEE MIRINGOFF The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their...
MIKE TURNER If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not univ...
KIM THúY Once the police take political direction, the rule of law is subverted. And the rule of law, it must...
BARRY COOPER That's scandalously reckless language for the speaker to be using.
KEVIN HALL As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the In...
AL FRANKEN The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.
HOZIER Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve t...
ANGELA MERKEL Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the cur...
NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be le...
KINGSLEY AMIS Sometimes a political leader needs to be so stubborn that he would not move a little,
YURIKO KOIKE Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the write...
MANUEL PUIG Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
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JUAN WILLIAMS I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the ...
ELLEN MALCOLM Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give ...
GEORGE ORWELL Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an app...
GEORGE ORWELL Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an ap...
GEORGE ORWELL Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an ...
HENRY TUCKERMAN Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
TERRY EAGLETON Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
MAO ZEDONG Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.".
MAO TSE-TUNG Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
MAO TSE-TUNG Some of these forces have gained strength because of a lack of other alternatives. For decades the M...
FAREED ZAKARIA All of the wars in the world are fueled by power struggles either at individual, national or interna...
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That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE