Political Quotes · Page 169

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

— Benjamin Franklin

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

— Roberto Bolano

Catering to populist anger with extremist proposals that are certain to fail is not a viable strategy for political success.

— Max Boot

I'm not a policy wonk, and I don't dream of being a political operative.

— Clint Howard

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual…

— Juan Goytisolo

Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.

— Gad Saad

We must seek consensus across all political parties that obesity is a complex disease for which no single cause or cure exists.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

— James G. Stavridis

In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often…

— Camille Henrot

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could…

— Anonymous

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle,…

— Bernie Sanders

While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in…

— John Podhoretz

I think that the power of a political vision is deeply engaged with the possibility of how you can live out the…

— Amber Hollibaugh

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations…

— James Stephens

If I talk about coal, people will start equating my statements with a political angle. This is not a platform for politics,…

— Narendra Modi

We have talked about revoking French citizenship for some individuals. Therefore, I have decided to apply for citizenship, which in a way…

— Tariq Ramadan

Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the…

— Orhan Pamuk

Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then…

— Tony Benn

Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational…

— Karl Popper

Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns…

— Gerald Heaney

If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us,…

— Dennis Prager

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals…

— Ayn Rand

Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

— Anonymous

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

— Patricia Ireland

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other…

— John Locke

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

— Amber Hollibaugh

We're running a war by politicians and we're running a war by political correctness as per that question [with ISIS].

— Donald Trump

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

— Gustave Le Bon

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

— Tony Judt

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

— Callie Khouri

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a…

— John Wain

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

— Hermann Goring

Political parties - which too often operate like closed circles - must open up.

— Chuka Umunna

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

— Lars von Trier

The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.

— Gavin Newsom

Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.

— Annette Bening