Quotes About Politics

Not another boring diplomatic meeting.

Employees know that they ultimately pay the price when their manager doesn't get along with or cooperate with managers of other departments, leaving the staff to navigate the treacherous and bloody waters of organizational politics.

Avoiding the issues that merit debate and disagreement not only makes the meeting boring, it guarantees that the issues won't be resolved. And this is a recipe for frustration. Ironically, that frustration often manifests itself later in the form of unproductive personal conflict, or politics.

Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.

A healthy organization is one that has less politics and confusion, higher morale and productivity, lower unwanted turnover, and lower recruiting costs than an unhealthy one.

The essence of a cohesive leadership team is trust, which is marked by an absence of politics, unnecessary anxiety, and wasted energy. Every executive wants to achieve this, but few are able to do so because they fail to understand the roots of these problems, the most damaging of which is politics.

Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers.

saying nothing with the practiced ease of a politician

But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.

as it is not tyranny. All I ask is an independent parliament

What can you do to ensure your magazines will "survive" a future hi-cap magazine ban? Don't vote for people who will ban them and assist those who oppose them.

Trump knows how to be the loser's idea of a winner.

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

If Moroccans are dying in Indo-China, if it rains too much or not enough, if there is no work, if one's wife is sick and penicillin is expensive, or if the French are still in Morocco, it is all the fault of America. She could change everything if she chose, but she does nothing because she does not love the Moslems.

That was one of the troubles with the Istiqlal, with all politics: you talked about people as though they were not really people, as though they were only things, numbers, animals, perhaps, but not really people.

You know what politique is? It is the French word for a lie. Kdoub! Politique! When you hear the French say: our politique, you know they mean: our lies. And when you hear the Moslems, the Friends of Independence, say: our politique, you know they mean: our lies. All lies are sins. And so, which displeases Allah more, a lie told by a Nazarene, who doesn't know the true faith from the false, or a lie told by a Moslem, who does?

Virtually every predominantly Muslim country is either "not free" or "partly free"—with exceptions being Mali and Senegal. Despite the frequently cited Qur'anic passage that says there is "no compulsion in religion

Theodore Roosevelt saw in the Christian men of his day, who "were very nice, very refined, who shook their heads over political corruption and discussed it in drawing rooms and parlors, but who were wholly unable to grapple with real men in real life.

Marx finished his destructive passage with an exhortation to history, to philosophy, to law, to politics to undertake the secular righteous "task" to "establish the truth of this world." What truth? That truth, alas, was Marx's "truth." Ye shall be as gods.

It will be necessary to repeat the year 1793," wrote Lenin. "After achieving power, we'll be considered monsters, but we couldn't care less."22 Lenin and his self-described group of "glorious Jacobins" would monstrously do just that, and, indeed, could not care less.

Few professions were sized up by communists quite like the teachers' unions.

In 1989, Ronald Reagan's final year in the White House

Indeed, Marx and Engels willingly conceded that this program would require despotism. They stated of their ten points, "Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads.

He stated emphatically that "Socialism cannot be brought into existence without revolution.