Conviction Quote by Vladimir Lenin

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

— George McGovern

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

— Oliver Goldsmith

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for…

— Jonathan Shapiro

Politicians are spiritually sick people. The will to power and to dominate arises only in a sick mind. It arises out of an inferiority…

— OSHO

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

— Tacitus

The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician's values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.

— Robert Jeffress

Some go into politics not to do good, but to do well.

— Anonymous

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

— Robert Redford

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

— Alan Greenspan

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to…

— Beau Willimon

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

— Swami Vivekananda