Political Quotes · Page 121

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

— Marjane Satrapi

Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.

— George W. Bush

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

— William Godwin

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.

— Sheryl WuDunn

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

— Mark Steyn

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

— Barry Goldwater

A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the…

— David Rolf

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach…

— Jim Leach

I just didn't have the desire to run for political office. There are other things that I like to do, and it…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about…

— Gail Collins

Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they…

— Kory Stamper

On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions…

— Adolf Hitler

In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in…

— Jonathan Miller

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused…

— Herbert Croly

The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers…

— William S. Burroughs

I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to…

— Noam Chomsky

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction.…

— Dee Dee Myers

I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon…

— Pankaj Mishra

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and…

— Sarah Jones

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

— Asne Seierstad

Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.

— Eva Moskowitz

Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well -…

— Chanakya

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care…

— Nell Zink

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

— Thom Mayne

Shareholders, of course, have every right to weigh in on whether (or how) they want a company to exercise political influence.

— Ari Melber

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

— Will Rogers

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

— Anonymous

Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.

— Robin Lane Fox

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

— Plato

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

— Gloria Steinem

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

— Dan Quayle

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

— Terry Tempest Williams

The political solutions proposed against encryption are not going to work against terrorism.

— Pavel Durov