Quotes About Political

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.

I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

There can be no political revolution, no social revolution, no economic revolution. The only revolution is that of the spirit; it is individual. And if millions of individuals change, then the society will change as a consequence, not vice versa. You cannot change the society first and hope that individuals will change later on.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy-but that could change.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

In the sense of worldly advantage, it no longer signified whether people thought of him as having been an authentic man of virtue. There was no more political power or influence to be gained from maintaining that identity. But to him it still mattered.

The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me? No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it liveable? What's going on in the political prisons?

suddenly both parties have become theologians, the one side quoting the Pentateuch to justify slavery, the other side quoting the gospel to condemn it:... the people of the thirty-three United States, who are eminently and essentially political, cannot discuss a political matter without quoting the old and New Testa- ments!"97

Similarly, although patterns of centralized national authority differed radically among the European nations, the general trend in each of these areas was toward greater concentration of political power pointing toward the modern nation-state.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

This flexibility meant that local political arrangements influenced the location of urban expressways, thus allowing engineers, truckers, or planners to remodel American cities.