Politics Quote by Lord Hailsham Download Open image “In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.” — Lord Hailsham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Center Melted Confrontation Politics Melted Away Politics Politics Power Soft Center
The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent,… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to… — Lord Hailsham 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
