Political Quotes
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.
Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.
I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.
The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.
When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.
Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with a society.
Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.
If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.
I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.
MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!
And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.
I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.
Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.
It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.
I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.
Islam is the religion of peace. We say that jokingly. That's actually the position of the US government. It's rooted in political correctness and fear and a number of other convoluted things.
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.
It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.
All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.
All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder
There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn't have an economic and political game plan.
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?
