Politic Quotes
44 quotes by 39 authors
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The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern president,’ the father…
— Carlo Wolff
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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
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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
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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no…
— Kathryn Stockett
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Politic Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 44 Politic Quotes, led by these top contributors: