Quotes About Life

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

My life needs editing.

Rest of my life is more important to me than politics

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

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.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.