Quotes About Politics

The whole dream of democracy,' he wrote, 'is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.

All political and social systems appeared to us corrupt, yet we declined to consider an alternative other than hedonistic chaos.

The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a Männerbünd in charge of the principle of the imperium, comprising men who see loyalty as the basis of their honor.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

The idea was that everything personal was political; in fact, henceforth nothing was supposed to be regarded as 'personal' or private.

My mother could see that as far as my father's relationship with the Party was concerned, she was an outsider. One day, when she ventured some critical comments about the situation and got no response from him, she said bitterly, You are a good Communist, but a rotten husband! My father nodded. He said he knew.

Every word of Chairman Mao's is universal absolute truth, and every word equals ten thousand words!

For Cixi, what the Viceroy as done was best left unsaid.

Religious leaders should keep to religion. If they interfere in politics, it spells doom for religion as well as for the kingdom.

The new Sufi tariqahs founded at this time stressed the unlimited potential of human life. Sufis could experience on the spiritual plane what the Mongols had so nearly achieved in terrestrial politics

The great genius of the Shiah was its tragic perception that it is impossible fully to implement the ideals of religion in the inescapably violent realm of politics.

But during the nineteenth century, Europe was reconfigured into clearly defined states ruled by a central government.

The conviction that religion must be rigorously excluded from political life has been called the charter myth of the sovereign nation-state.

The implications for politics were immense. If instead of ruthlessly pursuing his own self-interest to the detriment of others, a ruler would curb his ego and submit to li for a single day, Confucius believed, everyone under Heaven would respond to his goodness!

In the West, we have deliberately excluded religion from political life and regard faith as an essentially private activity. But this is a modern development, dating only to the eighteenth century, and would have been incomprehensible to both Jesus and Paul.

The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.

No more politics, Grandma Donna had said as a permanent new rule, since we wouldn't agree to disagree and all of us had access to cutlery.

An election year in the U.S., as if you needed to be reminded, the vituperative tunes of the Ayn Rand Marching Band bleating from the airwaves.

of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.

And this is a small point by comparison, but why do Republicans persist in substituting Democrat, with its rat ending, when Democratic would be correct? Because they want us to know, in every word they speak, how much they hold us in contempt. In my lifetime, the Republicans have never accepted a Democratic president as legitimate, no matter how many people vote for him [or her.])

I don't mind being shot at. It's having a government that lies to me that I hate.

all the pickup-driving John Boys who drove down to Atlanta every day to make money, then drove back at night and railed against the godless liberals who lined their pockets and subsidized their utilities, their healthcare, their children's lunches and their schools.

As perhaps the Russians would tell us, 'When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.

Anyone who does not want communism-and none of us do-should take socialism seriously.