Political Quotes · Page 126

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

— Emma Goldman

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

— David Miliband

I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.

— Sean Paul

Investors avoid investing in a region where some elements cause political instability by their so-called movements.

— Nawaz Sharif

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

— John Gokongwei

Fiduciaries have an obligation to put the financial wellbeing of their investors first - not political whims.

— Katie Britt

“Let yourself be the enemy of comfort. Let yourself be the enemy of complacency always.”

— Nick Oliveri

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

— Andy Borowitz

I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond…

— Samuel Johnson

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military,…

— Jimmy Carter

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on.…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil…

— Vicki Sue Robinson

I think the thing is there's a work for every space, you always have to respond to a context, whether it be…

— David Shrigley

It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no…

— Tom Fitton

The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in…

— Cornel West

The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty…

— Catherine the Great

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of…

— Edward Gibbon

I took a leave of absence from the internet company where I was working and bought a camera and a copy of…

— Marshall Curry

From the starch-heavy 'food pyramid' to ethanol fuel, the government adopts programs not because they are right but because they gains votes,…

— Robert Prechter

Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing…

— Michelle Malkin

More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political)…

— Jonathan Rauch

What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears…

— Pablo Picasso

The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa — not often…

— Anita Dunn

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

— Paul Johnson

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

— Eartha Kitt

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.

— Vanna Bonta

Governors playing political games does not augur well for the democratic and federal nature of the Union. This must be corrected.

— M. K. Stalin

Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to…

— David Corn

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and…

— Jami Floyd

To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.

— Mark Weisbrot

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

— John Adams

Kindness and compassion aren't political qualities even though they get politicized.

— Derren Brown

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever…

— Adam Driver

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

— Ethel M. Dell

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

— Phyllis Schlafly

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

— Robert Novak

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

— John McCain