Quotes About Political

I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for things.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

In the private sector, as the president of a small business, my focus has been on driving the growth of our business, not driving any partisan political agenda.

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

I like George Will, I don't agree with him particularly, but he's probably the smartest conservative out there.

The government's policy is to ensure a smooth environment where all political parties can function freely. The government will take appropriate action if anyone adopts a stand different from it.

The so-called cancel culture on the Internet, the extremism that sometimes flares up on university campuses and newsrooms, and the exaggerated claims of those who practice identity politics are a political and cultural problem that will require real bravery to fight.

Investors avoid investing in a region where some elements cause political instability by their so-called movements.

At the end of an especially angry letter to Reverend Twichell on the subject of political hypocrisy, he declared, "I have written you to-day, not to do you a service, but to do myself one. There was bile in me. I had to empty it. … I have used you as an equilibrium-restorer more than once in my time, & shall continue, I guess."31

At the very least, it will endanger the stability of the international political order and the global trading networks upon which American prosperity rests;

The public execution did not re-establish justice; it reactivated power. In the seventeenth century, and even in the early eighteenth century, it was not, therefore, with all its theatre of terror, a lingering hang-over from an earlier age. Its ruthlessness, its spectacle, its physical violence, its unbalanced play of forces, its meticulous ceremonial, its entire apparatus were inscribed in the political functioning of the penal system.

it seems to me that the idea of justice in itself is an idea which in effect has been invented and put to work in different types of societies as an instrument of a certain political and economic power or as a weapon against that power.

I hated as hard as I could. I thought about Nazis. Air pollution. The Twilight books. Bill O'Reilly (beginner's mistake; political hate is notoriously hard to channel). Calculus.

political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on fantasies, images, words, and archetypes that come together to make up this or that political kitsch.

No nation has been on earth since the beginning of time and the very concept of nationhood is pretty recent. Despite that, most nations look upon their own existence as a self-evident destiny conferred by God, or by Nature, since time immemorial. Nations tend to think of their cultures and political systems, even their frontiers, as the work of Man, but they see their national existence as a transcendent fact, beyond all question

Estoy pensando en el redactor que organizaba la recogida de firmas para la amnistía de los presos políticos en Praga. Sabía perfectamente que aquello no ayudaría a los presos. El verdadero objetivo no era liberar a los presos, sino demostrar que aún había gente que no tenía miedo. Lo que hacía era teatro. Pero no tenía otra posibilidad. No podía elegir entre actuar o hacer teatro. La disyuntiva era: hacer teatro o no hacer nada.

Since the days of the French Revolution, one half of Europe has been referred to as the left, the other half as the right. Yet to define one or the other by means of the theoretical principles it professes is all but impossible. And no wonder: political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on the fantasies, images, words, and archetypes that come together to make up this or that political kitsch.

History only suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

In fiscal policy as in monetary policy, all political considerations aside, we simply do not know enough to be able to use deliberate changes in taxation or expenditures as a sensitive stabilizing mechanism.

I was very concerned about helping animals improve their situations. But that was out of love. It wasn't political or out of a belief that animals had rights.

I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.