Politics Quotes
In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered in the chest - without asking to be paid.
Let’s return to the main argument. People are hurting as hell. It matters. We should do something to make them happier, if we can.
It takes courage with true humility and steadfastness to win confidence and admiration
we see that an aspect of the work of the masses consists in investigating and opening up the question of names
Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.
No country can police corruption in other countries when it itself is not free from corruption. You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.
You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.
People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you.
In a world devoid of towering political leaders, we seem to have become experts at growing idiots & elevating them to important positions.
The auto immune disease is like politics in an organization, attacking own cells thinking it's foreign!
Nuance is anathema to his thinking, which is why he can maintain such fidelity to his ideas in a-hundred-and-forty-character bursts.
Pure honesty" is dead in a jungle of eternal, bloody impunity, rampant corruption and dirty politics. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy
Move away from Machiavellian hearts. Manipulative people can frame you up even if you have a humble, simple and generous heart. Question their motive. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy
Reality does not yield to wishful thinking and truth cannot be established by a political party (or any other organization for that matter).
With enough support you can be as ignorant as you want
It is imperative that we replace those who think they own this country, with those who built it.
The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.
It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.
I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll have when we're old.
One can be interested in both fashion and politics, don't you think? They so often go hand in hand. Appearances, saying the right words, making people like you...
You did a politics project on a government that got overthrown on the due date? Man, did anybody ever tell you you've got no luck?""I suspected it, " said Raymond ironically.
The only things I can’t offer you are children and politicians: the first is illegal and the second is expensive
...Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism, ...
News Flash!All politicians arms are going to be lengthened so that they will be able to pat themselves on the back for doing a great job.
It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.
But mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.
Such is the psychology of crowds that the majority will follow whoever appeared to be in power...
Artificially to incite hatred is not only supererogatory in politics and foreign relations, it is also positively harmful.
...if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.
...for a man is a Herdentier - an animal that always follows the herd, a gregarious animal - and quickly follow's its neighbour example.
The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that 'justice is what love looks like in public.' I often think that neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as policy.
For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.
The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount of flattery would change how I saw him.
Conservative Christians take every word of the Bible literally except for the part about Loving Thy Neighbor.
In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused.
Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.
Fight all you want, but you will never win. You can change a system only by being part of that system, by being part of the change.
