Political Quotes · Page 130

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

— H. J Eckenrode

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence…

— Aristotle

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a…

— Anonymous

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

— Bill W. Clayton

In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.

— Olga Tokarczuk

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

— Aminatta Forna

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

— George W. Bush

Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters.

— Rachel Maddow

I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as…

— James Carville

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are…

— Orhan Pamuk

My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant…

— Daniel Pipes

A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin…

— Bocafloja

The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is…

— Jessica Valenti

“There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made…

— Blaise Pascal

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your…

— Robert Higgs

We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every…

— Adolf Hitler

I think whenever Ahmadinejad opens his mouth in forums, especially in front of the U.N. General Assembly, those that are listening, especially…

— Karim Sadjadpour

When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes…

— Barack Obama

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a…

— Isaac Asimov

If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal our sick political system.…

— Jill Stein

Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as…

— Harry Browne

Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very…

— Noam Chomsky

The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the…

— Barbara Crossette

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead…

— William Beveridge

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

— Andrej Pejic

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

— Thomas Friedman

I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

— Jack Abramoff

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

— Dale Murphy

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time…

— David Price

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism,

— Max Horkheimer

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

— Howard Rheingold

The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.

— Michael Pare

I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what…

— Nina Turner

I think hip-hop has always been political because this is a community that doesn't have any other choice.

— Ari Melber

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

— Milton Friedman

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

— Franz Mehring

Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

— Kevin Rudd