Political Quotes · Page 118

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

— Bell Hooks

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

— Fidel Castro

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

— Will Rogers

We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind…

— Marianne Williamson

I hope more women will join us in our journey towards a more balanced political system.

— Sylvia Lim

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man…

— Yehuda Amichai

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

— Noam Chomsky

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

— Plutarch

I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's…

— Arundhati Roy

I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no…

— Tariq Ali

“Pemansuhan PPSMI bukan keputusan politik, tetapi ia sebaliknya memerlukan iltizam politik atau political will yang sangat tinggi untuk dilaksanakan.”

— Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin

In order for an act to be a crime, libertarians say, someone must be harmed - there must be a victim. Anything…

— Scott Banister

Being with the president’s daughter, no matter who the president is, you are connected to the most powerful political force on earth,…

— Rufus Wainwright

First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some…

— Margaret Truman Daniel

I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and…

— Pope Francis

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time…

— Parker Palmer

First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that…

— Ronald Reagan

There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long…

— Joseph Story

We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into…

— Edwin Feulner

Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your…

— Thomas Merton

People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by…

— Thomas Sowell

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double the numbers now. Can you…

— Penn Jillette

Boris Nemtsov and I began to argue after Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. In my opinion, there was no longer…

— Garry Kasparov

Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.

— Laurence Kotlikoff

We have to end political gerrymandering in this country. We have to end it.

— Michael Bennet

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political…

— Albert Einstein

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

— Winston Churchill

Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

— Thomas Sowell

Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

— Fran Lebowitz

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

— Frank Herbert

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.

— Vic Mensa

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we…

— John F. Kennedy

Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation.

— Nick Boles

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

— Arthur Jones

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than…

— John Maynard Keynes

I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far…

— Johnny Weir

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

— Paul Ryan