Quotations about politics

- True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar
it comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars need reconstructing
- Myten, traditionerna, generna, hormonerna - allt förlägger makten utanför människan
och hennes vilja och förmåga att välja och förändra
- When plunder becomes a way of life
for a group of men living together in society
they create for themselves in the course of time
a legal system that authorizes it
and a moral code that glorifies it.
- This troubled planet is a place of the most violent contrasts
those who recieve the rewards are totally seperate
from those who shoulder the burdens
It is not a wise leadership.
Mr. Spock
- Feminism is the radical notion that women are people!
- Our lives begin to end when we become silent about things that matter.
- Här finns nog för allas behov men inte för allas girighet
Gandhi
- Guy Bennett: Wouln't it be wonderful if communism was really true?
Tommy Judd: It is true.
Guy: What? Heaven on earth?
Tommy: Earth on earth, a just earth
( ur Another country)