Political Quotes
When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.
I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.
Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.
Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.
The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.
...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.
The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.
Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated then, just with the Nazis.
As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.
The people of Aleppo have suffered like no one else for so long. There has to be a political solution.
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win.
America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.
The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.
Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.
It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely the institution which has for its object the support and diffusion of religion from the political government.
Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.