Politics Quotes
He’s the president now, but he’s still Matt. My first crush, my first love. And I know that after Matt, I’ll never want or love another man again.
She is the one relentless, constant thought in my head and tug in my damn chest. The only she that has ever existed in my life.
You’re . . . their absolute fantasy. Of course I’m jealous. You’re their fantasy and mine.
I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry, " said the Sow. "What's that?" asked Lorina."It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.
For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.
Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done.
Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return.
Reiterating other people's hopes, dreams and fears. That's what politics is all about.
Only those who live for others become immortal, and the rest simply perish within a few weeks, or alas days, after their mortal demise.
The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning.
Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.
When the truth reaches the mass, it becomes impossible to govern by deception.
But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.
... You can only properly oppress people through a stability bordering on stagnation.
We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags,
An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.No. 75
Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.
What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?
The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.
Power is given to those who reach to take it & claimed by those who will stop at nothing to fulfill what they believe is their birthright.
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
If not us, then who? Who's going to stand when everyone else kneels? Who's going to argue for the law even when there's no justice to be had? Who's going to try even when the trying is too damn hard?
Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!
You can't spend months insulting almost every group imaginable and then expect everyone to suddenly sing kumbaya together.
Just because there is change around us does not mean there has to be change within us.
The public is blaming the city officials, who in turn have to find someone else to blame. It's the nature of the beast. If the police, the politicians, can pass the buck on down the line, they will.
Guns neither initiated nor enabled larger changes. Economic, political, and social development preceded and laid the foundation for the invention and use of the gun, not the other way around.
Unfortunately in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.
Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.
Democracy could be worthless and counterproductive in the absence of sound moral leadership!
Politics is like a branches on a tree, they all grow in different directions but their roots remain as one.
Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning!
...civility doesn't require consensus or the suspension of criticism. It is simply the ability to disagree productively with others while respecting their sincerity and decency.
To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.
We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.
The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it.