{"quotes":[{"text":"A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","citizen-power","citizens","inspirational","inspiring","leadership","leadership-development","political","political-philosophy","political-science","politics","responsible-citizen","social-change","social-norms","social-psychology","social-reform","social-reformer","social-science","social-sciences","social-work","social-worker","social-workers","society","society-problem","society","society-thinking"],"id":16617,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience and last for centuries into the future as an environment of human life, we have to embody three things: a respect for Earth systems and their details in balance; a commitment to discovering and sharing the truth and only the truth at all times about all things; and a commitment to doing no harm.","author":"Robert David Steele","tags":["democracy","intelligence","political-science"],"id":20865,"author_id":"Robert+David+Steele"},{"text":"I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy enables in a corrupt Congress, a corrupt Executive, a corrupt economy, and a corrupt society. I see that the greatest service I or any other person can render to the Republic is to march firmly, non-violently, toward open-source everything.","author":"Robert David Steele","tags":["democracy","intelligence","political-science"],"id":24955,"author_id":"Robert+David+Steele"},{"text":"Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep.","author":"rassool jibraeel snyman","tags":["philosophical","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","philosophy-of-religion","police","politeness","political","political-correctness","political-science","politicians","politics"],"id":31679,"author_id":"rassool+jibraeel+snyman"},{"text":"Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","citizen","country","deceit","deceitful","elections","games","government","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","organized","people","philosophy","play","political","political-philosophy","political-science","politicians","politics","public","public-sector","resourceful","resourcefulness","resources","strength","strengthen","trick","trickery","weak","weaken"],"id":32389,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["democracy","democracy-fascism","democracy-freedom","democracy-voting","elections","free-speech","freedom","government","liberty","media","political-science","politics-observation","politics-science","politicsics","power","president","republicans","responsibility","vote","voters","voting","voting-rights"],"id":35106,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["heaven-and-hell","heaven","political-lies","political-philosophy","political-science","politicians","politics","politics-language","purgatory","saving-the-world"],"id":45811,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?","author":"Victoria Stoklasa","tags":["government","inspirational","law","laws","political","political-commentary","political-science","politics"],"id":46778,"author_id":"Victoria+Stoklasa"},{"text":"The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public's).","author":"Robert David Steele","tags":["democracy","intelligence","political-science"],"id":53193,"author_id":"Robert+David+Steele"},{"text":"We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...","author":"T. Rafael Cimino","tags":["americans","greed","inspirational","inspirational","political-commentary","political-philosophy","political-science","political-theory","politics-of-the-united-states","religion"],"id":55948,"author_id":"T.+Rafael+Cimino"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":88,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}