Quotes About Politics

You cannot rally against abortion, and then support a law that grants unbiblical rights to homosexuals, regardless of whether you think it is the American thing to do. God will not hold you guiltless just because you are dealing with matters of the state. He might just "separate" you from the church altogether and send you to hell. There you can sort out your politics.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand.

My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.

Rajiv Gandhi was the first prime minister of India who had actually done something else with his life before joining politics.

I spoke with my father after reading this book and he wryly recalled the tremendous hope that his generation had had from the 1971 election. They really believed that "garibi" would be "hataoed". Of course, nothing of the sort transpired.

it is instructive how the themes that Mrs Gandhi introduced to Indian politics in 1977 are still dominant in our political discourse. She painted the Syndicate as being in the grips of crony capitalists—and that is an idea that every party from the Left to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) recycles again and again.

Jagjivan Ram hated Charan Singh who hated the RSS which hated the Socialists. And, oh yes, everybody hated Morarji. á

And with a single stroke of his pen, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed suspended the institutions of Indian democracy!

Books about colonization in early America more typically dwell on themes of politics, trade, religion, demography, and warfare. Without discounting the importance of these topics (for each has a place here) and with no intention of offering a monocausal explanation for complex events, this book argues that sometimes mundane decisions about how to feed pigs or whether or not to build a fence also could affect the course of history.

Rape is a well-defined political strategy: the bare bones of capitalism, it is the crude and blunt representation of the exercise of power. It designates a ruler, and organizes the rules of the game to allow him to wield his power without restraint.

Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit to which all human beings are heir. In the course of analytic time, it became apparent that -- with or without the burden of social justice -- the effort required to attain any semblance of inner freedom was extraordinary. Great literature, I then realized, is a record not of the achievement, but of the effort.

I don't follow politics much.

Owing to the conditions of capitalist exploitation, the modern wage slaves are so crushed by want and poverty that "they cannot be bothered with democracy", "cannot be bothered with politics"; in the ordinary, peaceful course of events, the majority of the population is debarred from participation in public and political life.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel

To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

Our party, like any other political party, strives for political supremacy for itself .

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich: this is the democratism of capitalist society.