Contempt Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

— Mao Zedong

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling,…

— Jon Meacham

“people] can see only the human actors upon the stage of history. Wicked rulers, ruthless dictators, tyrants, oppressors, kings, governments, and presidents are, to…

— Mark Hitchcock

No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.

— John Lydon

In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong…

— Debbie Ford

“Instead of the concrete individual, you have the names of organizations and, at the highest point, the abstract idea of the State as the…

— C.G. Jung

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are…

— Margaret Halsey

How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political…

— Vivian Gornick

Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the…

— John Quincy Adams

“The very way you think places you among its enemies. This might not be your fault, because every society imposes some of its values…

— Iain M. Banks

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working…

— Francis Galton

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb