Political Quotes

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)

Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia.

And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity

We are social and political creatures but foremost we are a biological one. Our feelings, sentiments, emotions and attractions are generally because of our biological structure and appearance.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Without moral values, which should begin in Congress, America will lose her roots, her basis, her thesis.

There's something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

When greed transcends rationale, morality becomes irrelevant.

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.

It is possible to have a rather tranquil political atmosphere in any given nation. The secret is to put truth and honesty as the foundation of the political structure in that nation.

When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.

This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives.

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

A young, beautiful mayor’s with high-powered plans for the city of Compton must put them aside to become a sleuth to solve the assassination of her husband, the mayor.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

For if our bodies aren’t our own, And justice isn’t ours, And our love is just a sin, And voices by the peopleAre no longer for the people, What have we left to lose?

No man has the courage to approach her or initiate questions she herself rise, for all men fear a fascist and she can very well be a fascist’s wife.

Let bricks of truth fill the skies and send their walls of conformity crashing downAnd let the heavens echo with the blows of our liberation

Freedom is a choice, and we have to defend our choices.

And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily over half a ladleful of thin oatmeal kasha, cooked entirely without fat - just oats and water.

You think it's impossible to be a passive fighter? Well, sometimes fighting just means existing. Existing, not going away, and quietly biding your time.

...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

The framers were realists

If America is to be strong in the future, Americans must see America as home, not divided by race or region. Build American jobs for the future and come together with compassion to solve problems.

Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...

You need vision to transform political arena

. . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the earth, which is the human race, and against the legislator of the universe, which is n

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

The greatest threats to Democracy are comfort and apathy.

When we relate and share knowledge authentically, this places us in a state of grace, a state of 'win-win' harmony with all others, and establishes trust among all.

The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public's).

Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an 'intelligence minuteman.

This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

Open Everything' is everything--it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

Success of democracy lies within the analytical thought of a common man.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.

Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.