Political Quotes · Page 72

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

— Beatrice Webb

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be…

— Moses Finley

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

— Luciana Berger

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

— Anonymous

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

— Bill Maher

Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.

— William Kristol

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

— Kate Nash

Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

— Jill Stein

The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it…

— Lee Siegel

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and…

— Tom Brokaw

I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall…

— Mark McKinnon

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less…

— Anonymous

People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of…

— Andre Vltchek

Political leaders in Belarus are routinely repressed, and their voices are muffled: Tsikhanouskaya was running for president because her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski,…

— Anne Applebaum

These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of…

— Ulrike Meinhof

War challenges virtually every other institution of society-the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy…

— Walter Millis

“We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is…

— Slavoj Žižek

The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight…

— Edward Snowden

the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is…

— Hannah Arendt

Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it…

— Randall Jarrell

We're mathematically past the point where the accumulation of individual actions can add up quickly enough to make a difference. The individual…

— Bill McKibben

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is…

— Ayn Rand

We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology.…

— Bernie Sanders

The fact that this organisation is called the Islamic State reveals something even deeper. In fact, it implies that every single Islamist…

— Tariq Ramadan

Political discourse in America has gotten so out of control that it's emboldened people to ruin the lives of those they disagree…

— Chuck Woolery

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

— Jose Saramago

I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.

— Jerry Springer

I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.

— Ugo Cavallero

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

— Gerhard Schroder

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose…

— Sun Yat-sen

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

— Hannah Arendt

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

— Henry A. Kissinger

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

— Josh Marshall

Most people enjoy other people. Most people are human beings first. And affiliated with political parties second.

— Philip Rosenthal

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

— Paul Ryan

Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit.

— Stephen Marche

Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box.

— Timothy Simons

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

— Maxime Bernier

Political views in the hiring of career attorneys and staff should not be used. If I am asked to do that, I…

— Alexander Acosta