Political Systems Quotes

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.