Politic Quotes

44 quotes by 39 authors

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought. — Swami Vivekananda
Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates todayâ€™s Middle East. . . . The â€˜least interventionist of any modern president,â€™ the father… — Carlo Wolff
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and… — Michael Polanyi
Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational contrarianism to Barack… — Jon Stewart
High politic is only common sense applied to great things. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of… — Courtney Love
Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have… — Baltasar Gracian
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic… — Tariq Ramadan
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which… — William Shakespeare
Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ainâ€™t discussing no… — Kathryn Stockett
It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till… — William Shakespeare
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections,… — Voltaire
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue,… — Bayard Rustin
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this… — Jim Cooper
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and… — Samuel Freeman Miller
I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats… — John Bolton

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