Political Quotes

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.

My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are responsible for the growth of ISIS because they precipitously withdrew from Iraq in 2011 against the advice of every single general and for political expediency.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.