Quotes About Politics

Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

In the political and theological realms we are still stuck on the merry-go-round of church and state, capitalism and communism, Christian or Jew, Catholic or Protestant. We seem incapable of envisioning anything other than the dualistic and tired stalemate of contemporary patriarchal polity...

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ¦ If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The motive power of democracy is love

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power. That goes for the U.S.A as well as for Russia or any other country in the world.

Significantly, it was while the final act of Italian unification was drawing closer that the First Vatican Council (on July 18, 1870) declared the doctrine of papal infallibility—increasing the pope's power in the spiritual realm at the very moment when his temporal powers were appreciably waning.

Degas, the most conservative of the group, was adamantly anti-Dreyfus and adamantly anti-Semitic as well.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

bonds of unity which could not be severed: A unity of race and language; a unity of historical development; a unity in religion; and the political unity created by the fact that all the thrones were filled by members of the same family,

WITHOUT LAUGHTER, WHAT MAN of sense could endure either politics or war?

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

When language and thought atrophy, when complexity wanes and everything becomes more and more the same, we run great risks in society politic-- whether from extremists in a religion or a political organization or, less obviously, from advertisers.

As a rule, the extent to which politics can become the object of free scientific inquiry is a most accurate barometer by which to measure the degree of academic freedom in a country.

The assault on language may be harder to define and describe than his attacks on institutions, but it is essential to his autocratic attempt, the ultimate objective of which is to obliterate politics.

Trump's lies and his word piles both are exercises in arbitrariness, continued assertions of the power to say what he wants, when he wants, to usurp language itself, and with it, our ability to speak and act with others—in other words, our ability to engage in politics.

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

Believing this country to be a political and not a religious organisation ... the editor of the NATIONAL CITIZEN will use all her influence of voice and pen against 'Sabbath Laws', the uses of the 'Bible in School', and pre-eminently against an amendment which shall introduce 'God in the Constitution.