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Letter "P" » political institutions
«It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely from the political government the institution which has its object the support and diffusion of religion»
«Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.»
«Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.»
«The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).»
Author: Michel Foucault
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Historian,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
analyses,
assumptions,
conventional,
dissipate,
dissipated,
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evaluate,
evaluated,
examine,
formation,
formations,
habitual,
institutions,
mould,
participate,
playing field,
political institutions,
re-examine,
shake up
«All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
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Economist,
Logician,
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
affected,
conquest,
consequence,
institutions,
originate,
originate in,
political institutions,
previous,
revolutions,
subversion,
subversions
«It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(
President)
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About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Genius,
Politics
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Keywords:
American Constitution,
ample,
enduring,
fertility,
institutions,
invention,
political institutions,
rooted,
shelter,
The Genius
«All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(
Critic)
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Keywords:
ideology,
machines,
official,
political ideology,
political institutions,
political machine,
popular song,
Popular songs,
repeating,
stereotype,
stereotyped
«The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.»
Author: Albert Einstein
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Physicist)
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About:
Government,
Politics
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Keywords:
development,
institutions,
insure,
insured,
insures,
insuring,
justifiable,
political,
political institutions,
unhindered
«The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed»
«For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperilling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.»