political-philosophy

We Kurd must do everything in our power to create structures which prevent the repeat of mass murder by our adversaries,And It__ better to call for independence.

The difference between Nazism and Communism is just the size of the leader's moustache.

Typically, in politics, more than one horse is owned and managed by the same team in an election. There's always and extra candidate who will slightly mimic the views of their team's opposing horse, to cancel out that person by stealing their votes just so the main horse can win. Elections are puppet shows. Regardless of their rainbow coats and many smiles, the agenda is one and the same.

Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished.

Alternative facts and fake news are just other names for propaganda

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...

How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?

If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality.

I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully comprehends.

Politicians are not afraid of their mistakes, they are afraid their mistakes will not succeed

We all know that 97% of the money in the world doesn't exist and that's thanks to Fractional Reserve Banking, or should I say fictional reserve banking." He grinned at his own joke, his smile partly hidden by his hair, "Money is no longer attached to the Gold Standard, therefore, it isn't based on anything. So when it says, 'I promise to pay the bearer on demand ten pounds,' I have to ask, ten pounds of what?" Silence. "The world is owned by the rich shareholder, the rich superstar, the rich industrialist, the rich aristocracy." He was now marching around the stage, "It doesn't matter who or what they are, if they're rich then they own a part of the world, but they only own it because they've got lots of money. Which means they own part of the 97% of the world__ fictional money, the pretend money that only exists on a computer." He stopped abruptly and stared out at the audience, "Which means that if they cashed in their fictional nonexistent money they'd get something like this ten pound note offering to pay the bearer the sum of ten pounds of nothing." He held the note aloft, "Which means the rich have managed to buy the entire world with paper nothing that has a value of nothing and we've let them do it.

Success of democracy lies within the analytical thought of a common man.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.