Wilhelm Liebknecht Quotes

It was Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez who benefited most from the World Social Forum's enthusiasms.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism.... We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

Neoconservatism is a blend of realism and idealism. We have the idealism of the liberals but we look at the reality of the world.

The foreign policy of a socialist country is conducted on the basis of the principle of proletarian internationalism and a fundamental element of this principle is the recognition of the right of nations to self-determination.

Isolationism has been a calamity.

I do not believe that Communism will overwhelm the free world.

The Liberal Democratic Party works for Japan and the world.

Wisconsin is the fountain source of Progressivism. It is the scene of the chief political success of Socialism.

Unilateralism will lead to the decline of American Power.

What is modernity? Is it defending foreign interests, or defending interests of our country?

We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism.