Hope Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

— David Furnish

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

— Ry Cooder

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek…

— Vladimir Lenin

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

— Walter Lippmann

Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation,…

— George Washington

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever…

— John McCain

People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that dont matter

— Anonymous

There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

— Barbara Kingsolver

If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of…

— William Graham Sumner