It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is… — Dimitrije Tucovic Copy Share Image
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People want leaders. Not ideologues. Not people whose life experiences have been so narrow that they've been able to maintain the purity… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity . — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life. — David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir Copy Share Image
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life. — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes. — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
You see the ups and downs of political life - one minute you've got a job the next minute you're thrown out. — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a… — John Wain Copy Share Image
One of the phenomenons of American political life is that it all stops one day. One day, you've got 200 reporters and… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
“No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get. Soon people forget what the man really… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Women in Jordan are participating in all aspects of civil as well as political life - as female judges, parliamentarians, businesswomen. And… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Beware the one-party state: the parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
“My contention is that a basic income would increase both the amount and the productivity of ‘work’, and could also increase the… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“For while religion prescribes brotherly love in the relations among the individuals and groups, the actual spectacle more resembles a battlefield than… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“If one looks at modern society, it is obvious that in order to live, the great majority of people are forced to… — Gilles Dauvé Copy Share Image
“In fact, properly speaking, no parish priest has any convictions on politics. At the back of his mind, he regards the state… — Liam O'Flaherty Copy Share Image
“Have I really been in a battle?” wondered Stendhal’s hero after many hours blundering around the field of Waterloo, and many people… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
The number of states in the union has been fixed at 50 for so long, few Americans realize that throughout most of… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“After 1789, politics ceased to be considered as the prudent management of men and circumstances, in order to become the 'realization of… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it… — Johanna Siguroardottir Copy Share Image
Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
