Political Quotes

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. Its a callous political game.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

There is no hell, there's only France

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

At EMILY's List, we’re in the business of expanding the political power of women.

I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

Political correctness kills discussion.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.