Life Quote by Matthew Arnold

We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

— David Dimbleby

As we get older, we become more political in terms of survival. We realize a certain amount of cunning is necessary and that you…

— Pernell Roberts

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed,…

— Robert Higgs

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

— Jim Leach

The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political

— Renata Adler

“The capacity for trust and learning can make life seem less chaotic and mysterious, and democratic politics more plausible and attractive.”

— Timothy Snyder

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.

— Barack Obama

As a society, we moved from expecting politicians to be better than the rest of us to expecting them to be more degenerate than…

— John Hawkins

There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of…

— Robert Greene

So much of politics is about people's relationships with themselves. You do better if you make people feel secure in who they are.

— Pete Buttigieg

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

— Howard Zinn