Quotes About Political

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

We as born-again believers have to get our priorities realigned and realize our political alliances are not with the Democrats or the Republicans. As Christians, we should be monarchists. Our allegiance is to Christ the King. He will come back and fix all this; we do not need to allow anger to fester in our hearts like a disease. We're not even supposed plant roots in this life. Our home is a heavenly one. Our reality is an eternal reality.

Henry Kissinger once wrote that "the public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance,

Even the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system.

It is incumbent upon philosophy ... to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.

It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

One of the characteristics of modern political life is its professionalization, such that it attracts mainly the kind of people with so great an avidity for power and self-importance that they do not mind very much the humiliations of the public exposure to which they are inevitably subjected.

the British government considers a tax cut, almost all newspapers, no matter of what political tendency, describe the measure as giving money away—indulging in a handout, like a parent doling out a weekly allowance to children.

It has become all too typical of western youth, to mistake their personal angst for a universal political cause.

It is curious how people's attitude to the existence of a supposedly empirical phenomenon depends so completely on their political outlook. It is as if policy determined facts and not facts policy. If people are against big government they tend to deny that there is any such phenomenon; if they are for big government they tend to regard it as established fact and equate those who deny its existence with Holocaust deniers.

George Orwell once said that he wanted to turn political writing into an art:

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.

In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

we must abandon definitely the laissez-faire theory of political economy, and fearlessly champion a system of increased Governmental control, paying no heed to the cries of the worthy people who denounce this as Socialistic.

With the help of prominent media outlets, the Royalists, now a political minority, would engage in a scorched-earth strategy to defeat a coming Progressive Revolution, even if it meant crashing the United States as we know it. If they were going down, then the rest of the nation was going down with them. Which is exactly what happened.