Quotes About Politics

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

Oy vermek bir ?eyleri de?i?tirseydi yasaklan?rd?.

No es necesario tener mucha inteligencia para hallar detrás de cada guerra las mismas causas.

the political criminal is the victim of an attempt of a more or less despotic government to preserve its own stability. He is not necessarily guilty of an unsocial offense; he simply tries to overturn a certain political order which may itself be anti-social.

We're being led by an idiot with a crayon.

man of sense will not take part in politics either?; he knows the kinds of personal connections that politics involves. So what's to keep us from living as if we were as unsocial as flies?

Ironically, as Illinois Sen. Richard Yates pointed out, opponents of expansionism employed arguments extremely reminiscent of proslavery ideology, while its supporters upheld the principle that nonwhites could be successfully incorporated into the body politic. (No people, quipped Nevada Sen. James W. Nye, were "too degraded" for citizenship: "We have New Jersey, and all things considered, it has proven a success.")

Issues that agitate American politics—who is an American citizen and what rights come along with citizenship, the relative powers of the national government and the states, affirmative action, the relationship between political and economic democracy, the proper response to terrorism—are Reconstruction questions.

from local than national authority.

En estas circunstancias, la democracia era más bien un mecanismo para formalizar las divisiones entre grupos irreconciliables.

Mito e invenção são essenciais à política de identidade pela qual grupos de pessoas, ao se definirem hoje por etnia, religião ou fronteiras nacionais passadas ou presentes, tentam encontrar alguma certeza em um mundo incerto e instável, dizendo: Somos diferentes e melhores do que os Outros.

There may be a logical or historical reason why mid-Victorian English butchers should have been predominantly Conservative (a link with agriculture?) and grocers overwhelmingly Liberal (a link with overseas trade?), but none has been established, and perhaps what needs explaining is not this, but why these two omnipresent types of shopkeeper refused to share the same opinions, whatever they were.

Es cierto que los imperios se han construido a menudo con la ayuda de las armas, pero las armas no bastan para mantener el orden, como nos lo recuerda un viejo dicho que se remonta a los tiempos napoleónicos: «Puedes hacer lo que quieras con una bayoneta, salvo sentarte en ella».

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

The spokesmen of democracy offer no holy cause to cling to and no corporate whole to lose oneself in.

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents.

El mundo del tercer milenio seguirá siendo, muy probablemente, un mundo de violencia política y de cambios políticos violentos. Lo único que resulta inseguro es hacia dónde llevarán

Talvez valha a pena lembrar que nesse período a ameaça às instituições liberais vinha apenas da direita política, já que entre 1945 e 1989 se supôs, quase como coisa indiscutível, que vinha essencialmente do comunismo.

Your hair--it's kind of wavy. Indian in your blood, or are you a hypocrite and texturize your hair? He hesitated, appeared uneasy, then said, My mother is black and my father is white. Your a brown-skinned Drake and didn't vote for your cousin Obama?

En amour, on appelle ça un étalon; en politique, un démagogue. Le secret de la réussite, c'est de ne penser qu'à la jouissance de l'autre.

Ancient India cannot be fitted into the narrow box where the Hindutva activists want to incarcerate it.

It is hard to escape the general conclusion that economic performance, social opportunity and political voice are deeply interrelated.

as we all know from experience elections actually divide more than unite.