Quotes About Politics

In this world economics dooms itself to extinction at the same moment that it condemns politics to the same fate. 3.

Unformed, monstrous, and perhaps unidentifiable, deconstruction has moved virally through fields beyond philosophy and theory. Derrida advanced its progress in architecture, art, politics and law. And especially, in literature…

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.

Never attribute to malevolence that which can best be explained by incompetence."--Greenfield's First Law of Political Analysis.

It was ironic—the great socialists could only survive by becoming capitalists." But

In every society there are inequities, and in America the most obvious of these affect people of color and the poor. Demagogues recruit by uniting a disenchanted element against an enemy, then promising to use religion or politics or a combination of the two to bring about rightful change.

Most people don't seem to appreciate a person as honest as me. So don't ask me how George Washington ever got to be president.

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

As a professional, the teacher is "objective" when presenting the school curriculum: she doesn't "take sides," or "get political." However, the ideology of the status quo is built into the curriculum. The professional's objectivity, then, boils down to not challenging this built-in ideology.

private group prayers were the modern equivalent of a backroom cigar.

In 1936, when men such as Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh openly admired Hitler, it was still safe to name the style of government to which these words pointed. Human problems, Buchman told his little group that night in Lenox, require "a God-controlled democracy, or perhaps I should say a theocracy." Just as good, said Buchman, would be a "God-controlled Fascist dictatorship.

Walt Disney admired Mussolini and in 1938 quietly hosted Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, a month after Kristallnacht.

You don't know this, 'cause you're too young," came the usual lecture, "but the politicians run all the big scams. Government's the thief of all time. That's why it tries so hard to catch thieves - it doesn't like the competition

Thomas Jefferson

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Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.

There is no discussing theology, sociology and politics when someone is under the spell of a self-enclosed totalitarian ideology. Intentionally or out of ignorance, Ahmed, who is empirical in all matters, detests pointless and laborious philosophical imaginings, never-ending discussions, or clashes of ideas that might be respectful of non-believer opponents and sinners deserving only of complete contempt.

And so, what of it all? What of me and my passions and personas, my great loves and failures of love, my writing, my politics? What of the clanging opinions, the endless queries as to the whys and wherefores of how I chose to conduct myself? In the end, there is but one answer to every question, whether it is spit at me or made as gentlest inquiry: I was I.