Politics
Lienen was involved in the peace movement during the early 1980s. He took part in the Peace List, for which he was a candidate for the European elections in 1984. Lienen is also a member of the 'Future Council', an advisory council to the Government of North Rhine-Westphalia on matters of sustainable development.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The word “revolution” itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the “revolution” of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the “revolving door” of a politics which has “liberated” women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)