Curse Quote by Paul Keating Download Open image “The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.” — Paul Keating ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curse Great Life Life is Modern Political Political life Politics
Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little given the magnitude of America's moral decay. Since 1988, the new leaders have recognized that incrementalism is the surest path to success in political competition. The current movement is committed to securing small victories now, postponing for the… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share
Look, as an institutionalist who recognizes the power of incrementalism in the slow but steady march to equality, I'm used to seeing the forest… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving. — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Frankly I think too much of politics has become artificial, has become the creation of a self that is actually divorced from the way… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share
“Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence — call it what you will — is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.” — Matthew Flinders Copy Share Image
...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery... — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of what they… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know? — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic.… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia. Notwithstanding a controversial prime ministership, in later years he harboured one abiding and… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You have been deceived by your own cold heart - a curse upon your house and all within it. — Beauty And The Beast Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a… — Steve Southerland Copy Share Image
I especially like the songs Hurry Up and The Curse Of Castle Dragon, and I often include them in my live show. — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Mungu akikubariki kipaji chako watu watasema ni laana. Maisha yako ni sawa na mto. Unakoelekea ni baharini. Lakini sasa umefika kwenye mlango wa bahari.… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
