Polity Quotes
32 quotes by 27 authors
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
— Michel de Montaigne
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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
— Manmohan Singh
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The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity…
— Charles Tennyson Turner
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To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a…
— Charles Krauthammer
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
— Paul Wellstone
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I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations…
— Patrick O'Brian
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It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his…
— Noah Feldman
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China…
— Martin Jacques
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During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.
— David Novak
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For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which…
— David Novak
Who Wrote These Polity Quotes
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