Enmity Quote by Joseph O'Connor

Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.

— Charles Kennedy

Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows…

— Maxim Gorky

Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning 'bloodsucking creatures.

— Anonymous

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

— Margaret Halsey

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

— Rory Stewart

“Fellow-feeling. . .is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Neither our national nor our local civic life can…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Everybody complains that politics separates words from their meanings, and this is part of the reason why. Words are useful, but often their meanings…

— Barton Swaim

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

— Henry David Thoreau

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly' meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks' meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

— Larry Hardiman

Every word is a prejudice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained…

— Bernie Sanders

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

— Marianne Williamson