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«The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.»
Author: Angela Davis
| About:
Politics,
Work
| Keywords:
activist, activists, contributions, inevitably, issues, ravage, ravaged, ravages, tension
«Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
| Keywords:
automatic, balancing, cling, cling to, competing, disturbed, economy, issues, political economy, political machine, regulated, wishing
«The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods»
Author: Irving Kristol
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
arise, collision, collisions, confrontation, confrontations, goods, issues
«Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.»
Author: James Harvey Robinson
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
campaigns, cerebration, designedly, distract, distracts, endeavor, issues, muster, musters, muster up, normally, orgies, paralyze, paralyzes, paralyzing, political campaign, political power, slight
«The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues»
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
(Educator)
| About:
Indifference,
Suffering
| Keywords:
aspect, distressing, issues
«True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
at issue, contempt, deeper, essence, from the heart, humor, issues, issuing, smiles, springs, take issue
«That delicate forest flower,With scented breath and look so like a smile,Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould,An emanation of the indwelling Life,A visible token of the upholding Love,That are the soul of this great universe.»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
| Keywords:
delicate, emanation, emanations, forest, indwelling, issues, mould, scented, scenting, scents, shapeless, The Tokens, token, upheld, upholding
«The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life»
«New York is definitely haunted. Old lovers, ex-boyfriends, anyone you have unresolved issues with you are bound to run into again and again until you resolve them.»
Author: Sarah Jessica Parker
(Actress)
| Keywords:
again and again, boyfriends, definitely, haunted, issues, resolve, run into, unresolved
«The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gas mask handy, it is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
airman, bags, circulate, circulated, circulates, circulating, come in handy, flows, free people, furious, handier, Handy, issues, mask, puncture, punctured, punctures, roof, spate, The Clouds, The Current, The Seeds, whirled, whirling, whirls
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