Politics Quote by Harold Wilson Download Open image ““Boredom is often a useful instrument in politics. Never underestimate it.”” — Harold Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Politics
“Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.” — Susan Maushart Copy Share Image
“It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.” — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers this very important--does it want to know how things stand… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.” — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister. Over and above communication and… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
