Quotes About Politics

Both her mom and dad were so right wing they were like one-winged birds forever flapping in circles.

What the conservatives conceived of as sufficient measures overlapped with what were for the Nazis scarcely the first steps.

Soon U.S. corporate investment was expanding more rapidly in Hitler's Germany than in any other country in Europe, despite the worldwide economic depression.

Would the young men called to arms laugh and joke and exchange hearty platitudes in imitation of popular fiction, while they waited to be mutilated by the stupidity and arrogance of aged politicians?

Kyralia estaria muy bien gobernada, si gobernar fuera un delito

The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.

You might like either the Republicans or the Democrats more than I do, but still something is wrong in today's politics, even if we don't always agree

No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever. Nevertheless, if a sect sets up its laws as binding above the State laws, wherever the two come in conflict this claim must be resisted and suppressed at whatever cost.

No political party can or ought to exist when one of its cornerstones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever.

I did not parade with either party, but occasionally met with the "wide awakes—Republicans—in their rooms, and superintended their drill.

The efforts to kill off politically the two successful generals, made them both candidates for the Presidency. General Taylor was nominated in 1848, and was elected. Four years later General Scott received the nomination but was badly beaten, and the party nominating him died with his defeat.

in Congress for one term during the rebellion. Mr. White was always a Democrat in politics, and Chilton followed his father. He had two older brothers—all three being school-mates of mine at their father's school—who did not go the same way. The second brother died before the rebellion began; he was a Whig, and afterwards a Republican. His oldest brother was a Republican and brave soldier during the rebellion.

Terrorism is not the enemy of the great systems; on the contrary, it is their natural counterweight, accepted, programmed.

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state (attributed to James Jesus Angleton)

Minek olyan könyvet írni, amiért börtön járhat, ha egyszer azok, akik könyveket olvasnak, úgyis eleve republikánusok, a diktátor támogatói pedig írástudatlan parasztok, akiknek úgy pottyant ölébe Isten kegyelmébÅ'l a választójog?

Sensing that I ought to become more closely involved in political matters, I realized the most attractive news to fabricate would be what these idle minds were expecting, rather than what the newspapers reported as solid fact.

el mundo se ha convertido en un asunto demasiado complicado para dejar que sea gobernado por quienes lo gobernaban antes.

We cannot initiate a dialogue between different cultures on identical class problems if we do not first resolve the problem of the symbolic superstructures through which different civilizations represent to themselves the same political and social problems.

But then, apart from politicians and the pope, why does anyone else use Twitter? Perhaps to feel important.

Ma insieme, l'eredità ermetica e quella gnostica producono la sindrome del segreto. Se l'iniziato è colui che comprende il segreto cosmico, allora le degenerazioni del modello ermetico hanno condotto alla convinzione che il potere consista nel persuadere gli altri che si è in possesso di un segreto politico. Secondo

La política, amenazada por el terrorismo, ha dado vida a los miembros de una casta condenada a no saber nada del país que debe gobernar. Casta sí, pero en el sentido de los parias indios, despojados del contacto con los demás seres humanos.

hombre político contemporáneo es el ser más distanciado de la gente común porque vive en fortines protegidos, viaja en automóviles blindados, se mueve rodeado de gorilas, y por lo tanto la gente lo ve solo de lejos y nunca tiene ocasión de hacer la compra en el supermercado o la cola en una ventanilla municipal.

I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to twelve-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt.

Ogni qual volta un politico getta dubbi sulla legittimità del parlamento perché non rappresenta più la voce del popolo, possiamo sentire l'odore di Ur-Fascismo.