Political Quotes
The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.
It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.
The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses.
Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!
The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
I learned that the political is above the legal, that's why when my advisors tell me, Evo, what you are doing is illegal, I say, if it is illegal, then do it legal, you have studied for that".
The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.
There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class.
I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.
Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
As young Americans, you have an important responsibility, which is to become good citizens.
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
