Political Quotes · Page 98

I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it.

— Lucinda Williams

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring…

— Pat Boone

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

— Al Yankovic

The 'Alliance for Progress' was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.

— Hugo Chavez

“The only working model of socialism I have ever seen is in an elementary school classroom.”

— R.M. ArceJaeger

Political democracy has failed in the U.S. because there hasn't been economic democracy.

— David Dellinger

Factual truth is always related to other people [...]. It is political by nature.

— Hannah Arendt

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

— Nelson Mandela

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone…

— Aristotle

In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again…

— Lawrence Lessig

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient…

— George F. Kennan

Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of…

— E.C. Riegel

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number…

— Fritz Sauckel

I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither…

— Hans Frank

My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is…

— Benjamin Carson

Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations,…

— H. G. Wells

The EU might have become a large federal nation. But they would have had to do things differently. Number one, they would've…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Every relationship has one or the other motive behind it. Friendship or enemity are not purposeless.Oneness of motive is turned into friendship.…

— Chanakya

To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit…

— Aristotle

Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't…

— Naomi Wolf

Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular…

— Henry Giroux

While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power;…

— John Quincy Adams

Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,…

— Mary Travers

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

— Joseph Stalin

Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.

— Piyush Goyal

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.

— Bill Hicks

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

— Nancy Pelosi

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

— Golda Meir

Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.

— Charles E. Merrill

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

— Bobby Seale

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

— Paul Krugman

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

— Mark Udall

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

— Jeff Greenfield

I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

I don't consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman.

— Lisa Hanawalt

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a…

— Youssou N'Dour

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

— Christopher Morley

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

— Anonymous