Quotes About Politics

Religious people should always be wary of the ways in which political power is wielded and skeptical of how economic privileges are distributed. They should also be mindful of how their own traditions have been used for narrow political purposes, and how some religious figures have manipulated the faith to aggrandize their own power. The doctrine of original sin and the idea of a fallen side of human nature apply to people who are religious no less than those who are not.

cuts that that majorities of the voters

She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

occur. I have noticed with concern, for example, that not only certain politicians, but also some commentators in respectable publications are increasingly portraying Russia and/or China as the "enemy." Thoughts can spread like a virus, and if thoughts proliferate in the collective psyche, they distort our perceptions and cause us to act as if they were true, and so subsequently they manifest as our reality.

If you disagreed with him politically, he usually implied that you were a pervert or a foreign agent of some kind. Many of his listeners loved to hear the other callers debased. They were the sort of listeners who spent a lot of time in front of their TVs watching professional wrestling.

El futuro imprevisible se está gestando hoy. Ojalá se traduzca en una regeneración de la política, una protección del planeta y una humanización de la sociedad: es hora de cambiar de Vía.

Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, a gentleman couldn't go into politics. But

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement

Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words, and the direct tendency of their doctrines, then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight and forty millions; nor is it the better for being guided by a dozen of persons of quality, who have betrayed their trust in order to obtain that power.

The worst of these politics of revolution is this: they temper and harden the breast, in order to prepare it for the desperate strokes which are sometimes used in extreme occasions. But

My principles enable me to form my judgment upon men and actions in history, just as they do in common life, and are not formed out of events and characters, either present or past. History is a preceptor of prudence, not of principles. The principles of true politics are those of morality enlarged; and I neither now do, nor ever will, admit of any other.

The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror.

The greatest statesmen are those able at once to preserve and reform.

timid piety, which utterly disqualifies for government;

Do not allow yourselves to be cajoled into supposing that political apathy is dangerous. Dictators such as Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin are raised to power, not by apathy, but by mass fanaticism.

I told him he must treat the political audience as one coming, not to see an etching, but a poster," he said to Jusserand and Archie Butt. "He must, therefore, have streaks of blue, yellow, and red to catch the eye, and eliminate all fine lines and soft colors.

Theodore Senior belonged to a class and a generation that considered politics to be a dirty business, best left, like street cleaning, to malodorous professionals.

He castigates his habitual targets, "the dull, the feeble, and the timid good," and proclaims himself a strong man, careless of class, color, or party politics. "If I find a public servant who is dishonest, I will chop his head off if he is the highest Republican in this municipality!

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter