Political Quotes · Page 119

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

— Terry Eagleton

I'm all for raw milk. I think you should make your own choice on whether you drink raw milk or not.

— Ron Paul

Dad truly believed that Christians should be involved in the political process and should make their voices heard.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

— Bob Ehrlich

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

— Max Weinberg

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

— Alexander Hamilton

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public…

— J. William Fulbright

For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or…

— Jason Brennan

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big…

— Rachel Weisz

For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions…

— David Horowitz

I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then…

— Grace Paley

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist…

— Jean-Francois Cope

Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…

— Milton Friedman

The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia…

— Jim Webb

If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in…

— Wolfgang Schauble

You can't expect people who didn't exist as a community at all until about twenty years ago to have formed a political…

— Masha Gessen

Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful -…

— Richard Rorty

Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep…

— Margaret Thatcher

Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political…

— Margaret M. Lock

In political sense, it doesn't really matter what I do on my own, but it's so important to rally some sort of…

— Katie Stelmanis

It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of…

— Margaret Laurence

I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be…

— Tony Blair

There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate,…

— Henry Hazlitt

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

— John F. Kennedy

One thing I'm with Trump on is the political correctness in this country. It's draining.

— Dakis Joannou

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

— Tracey Ullman

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

— Lewis H. Lapham

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

— Drew Carey

I have no issues limiting my ability to write a check whether it's for a charity or a political engagement.

— George Santos

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

— Thomas Jefferson

But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure…

— Dalai Lama

A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.

— David Ignatius

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

— Paul Wellstone

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

— William Beveridge

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

— Clement Attlee

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

I wish I were better at observational or political or social commentary, and I'm just not.

— Taylor Tomlinson