Political Quotes · Page 158

I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political philosophy through an immensely popular novel.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.

— Laurence Kotlikoff

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

— Plutarch

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

— Noam Chomsky

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man…

— Yehuda Amichai

I hope more women will join us in our journey towards a more balanced political system.

— Sylvia Lim

Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

— Fran Lebowitz

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

— Frank Herbert

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages.…

— Jose Parla

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite…

— Arthur Koestler

The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation.…

— Hamid Karzai

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through…

— David Dinkins

I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to…

— Almeida Garrett

Labeling someone as an '-ist' who believes in an '-ism' because of the person's policy preference is just a shortcut to playground-style…

— Dan Crenshaw

I also think that there's something about the graphic, political nature of such attacks, mixed with the fact that it all seems…

— Karan Mahajan

I wanted to start by saying that the eurozone - there are two reasons they formed the European Union. One is for…

— Jamie Dimon

The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it…

— Paul Tsongas

The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in…

— Petra Kelly

This is sort of the epitome of the economic elite that is converging with a political elite. It's not only the banks…

— Jill Stein

One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever…

— Adolf Hitler

Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry -…

— Garrett P. Serviss

Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after…

— David Edelstein

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political…

— Andrew Jackson

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

— Winston Churchill

Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

— Thomas Sowell

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political…

— Albert Einstein

We have to end political gerrymandering in this country. We have to end it.

— Michael Bennet

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than…

— John Maynard Keynes

I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far…

— Johnny Weir

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

— Arthur Jones

Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation.

— Nick Boles

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.

— Vic Mensa

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we…

— John F. Kennedy

Getting into acting was a challenge for me as I belonged to a political family.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

— Thomas Jefferson

How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

— Ferdinand Marcos

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

— Larry Flynt