Accounts Quote by John Quincy Adams

It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.

— L.A. Paul

If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.

— Brad Williams

Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is…

— Michel Foucault

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

— Wendell Phillips

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

— Jerry Seinfeld

I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their…

— Fanny Kemble

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth…

— E. P. Thompson

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

— Matthew Arnold

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

— Plato

“Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.”

— Alex Payne

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

— Emile M. Cioran