Adrienne Rich Quotes, Real Quotes, Political Quotes

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

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The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

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Our nation must come together to unite.

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I am mindful that we're all sinners.

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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

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Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

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