Achieve Quote by A. N. Wilson

The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and…

— James Joll

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set…

— Michelangelo

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions…

— Oscar Wilde

Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic!

— Joseph Bayly

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling,…

— Jon Meacham

“The attitude of uncompromising heroism is attractive, and appeals especially to the dramatic instinct. But the purpose of the serious revolutionary is not personal…

— Bertrand Russell

In American politics, there's a recurring fantasy, nurtured by the press, about 'courageous' politicians who do the right thing against their political interest. But…

— Ari Melber

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider…

— Lester B. Pearson

There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately,…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being…

— Terry Pratchett