As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on... →
Parker Palmer
Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more... →
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
Tom G. Palmer
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or... →
Orhan Pamuk
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not... →
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers... →
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always... →
Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular... →
Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
Leon Panetta