„It was amazing that in this country where people allowed emotion to guide their politics they approached love with the precision of accountants.“

„You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.“

—  Robert Anton Wilson American author and polymath 1932 - 2007

„These people where inciting people to violence. That is not allowed in any country, in any democracy. You don't allow that in the United Kingdom, you don't allow that in the United States, or anywhere in the world.“

—  Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Maldivian politician, 3rd president of the Maldives 1937

BBC World interview (2003)

„Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves we are the same. “

—  John Denver American singer, songwriter, activist, and humanitarian 1943 - 1997

„People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.“

—  Ken Kesey novelist 1935 - 2001

„This enlarged view of the radical cause … allows us to connect leftism and modernism, the radical politics of institutional reform and the radical politics of personal relations, a political vision obsessed with issues of dependence and domination and a moral vision concerned with the inability of the individual to gain practical, emotional, or even cognitive access to other people without forfeiting his independence.“

—  Roberto Mangabeira Unger Brazilian philosopher and politician 1947

Источник: Social Theoryː Its Situation and Its Task (1987), p. 7

„I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country. And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics.“

—  Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States 1946

March 20, 2008 http://www.townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/03/22/obama_adviser_faults_bill_clinton_speech
2000s

„The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.“

—  Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

„An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.“

—  Ian Bremmer American political scientist 1969

"Managing Risk in an Unstable World," http://custom.hbsp.com/b01/en/implicit/product.jhtml?login=BREM060105&password=BREM060105&pid=1126 Harvard Business Review (June 2005).

„We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people.“

—  Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965

I Ask You—What Price Freedom? Answers, 24 October 1936.
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol I, Churchill at War, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 360.
The 1930s
Контексте: We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people. Thought is free, speech is free, religion is free, no one can say that the Press is not free. In short, we live in a liberal society, the direct product of the great advances in human dignity, stature and well-being which will ever be the glory of the nineteenth century.

„One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…“

—  Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910

„If the politics of disease are to be understood, particularly in the dreadful countries where this understanding is most needed, then the politics of total collapse have to be understood first.“

—  P. J. O'Rourke American journalist 1947

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

„It remains to be seen what part politics will play in the eradication of the political emotional plague and what part the consciously organized functions of love, work and knowledge.“

—  Wilhelm Reich, книга The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Section 3 : Work Democracy versus Politics. The Natural Social Forces for the Mastery of the Emotional Plague.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Ch. 10 : Work Democracy
Контексте: For a decade, the politics of the European dictators was unrivalled. In order to comprehend the essence of politics, one only has to remember that it was a Hitler who, for many years, was able to keep the world breathless. Hitler as a political genius was a magnificent unmasking of the essence of politics in general. With Hitler, politics reached the peak of its development. We know what were its fruits and what was the reaction of the world. In brief, I believe that the twentieth century, with its gigantic catastrophes, ushers in a new social era, an era free of politics. It remains to be seen what part politics will play in the eradication of the political emotional plague and what part the consciously organized functions of love, work and knowledge.

„We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in countries where there are fruits, grains, and nuts in abundance, flesh food is not the right food for God's people.“

—  Ellen G. White American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church 1827 - 1915

Vol. 9 http://www.whiteestate.org/books/egwhc/EGWHCc27.html#sth6, p. 159
Testimonies for the Church (1855 - 1868)

„I'm amazed that there is such misunderstanding of what our country is about, that people would hate us.“

—  George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946

Remarks in a press conference, after questions by Ken Walsh of U.S. News & World Report (11 October 2001), as published https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/pagedetails.action?collectionCode=PPP&browsePath=president-57%2F2001%2F02%3BA%3BJuly+1+to+December+31%2C+2001&granuleId=PPP-2001-book2-doc-pg1218-2&packageId=PPP-2001-book2&fromBrowse=true in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: 2001, Book II (2003), Government Printing Office, p. 1226-1227.
2000s, 2001
Контексте: I'm amazed that there is such misunderstanding of what our country is about, that people would hate us. I am, I am—like most Americans, I just can't believe it, because I know how good we are, and we've got to do a better job of making our case. We've got to do a better job of explaining to the people in the Middle East, for example, that we don't fight a war against Islam or Muslims. We don't hold any religion accountable. We're fighting evil. And these murderers have hijacked a great religion in order to justify their evil deeds. And we cannot let it stand.

„Thank you to everyone who has embraced the gifts and talents of my beloved and amazing daughter. I am grateful for your thoughts and prayers that are now guiding her to her next stop. Love Carries Mother“

—  Debbie Reynolds American actress, singer, and dancer 1932 - 2016

Post to Facebook (27 December 2016) https://www.facebook.com/thedebbiereynolds/posts/811585312313920

„Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Источник: Styxx

„It was always accounted a virtue in a man to love his country. With us it is now something more than a virtue. It is a necessity.“

—  Adlai Stevenson mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN 1900 - 1965

Speech to the American Legion convention, New York City (27 August 1952); as quoted in "Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism" in Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History (2004) by William Safire, p. 81 - 82
Контексте: It was always accounted a virtue in a man to love his country. With us it is now something more than a virtue. It is a necessity. When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Men who have offered their lives for their country know that patriotism is not the fear of something; it is the love of something.

„But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?“

—  Alexander McCall Smith, книга Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

Источник: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

„Where people are free, political violence is minimal.“

—  Rudolph Rummel American academic 1932 - 2014

Источник: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 13