Quotes About Politics

He was not well-educated or political, but if nothing else, he was a man who appreciated fairness. A Jew had once saved his life and he couldn't forget that. He couldn't join a party that antagonized people in such a way. Also, much like Alex Steiner, some of his most loyal customers were Jewish. Like many of the Jews believed, he didn't think the hatred could last, and it was a conscious decision not to follow Hitler. On many levels, it was a disastrous one.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.

La política de la envidia a veces se limita sinceramente a la idea de que "queremos lo que ellos (mujeres, inmigrantes, miembros de la élite) tienen". Pero a las personas les encanta moralizar su envidia y, muy a menudo, lo que empieza siendo pura envidia deriva hacia un "son malas personas, no merecen lo que tienen".

Roosevelt vio que los derechos protegen a la democracia del embate de la envidia. Nadie puede envidiar de su prójimo lo que toda persona tiene por derecho. Elevar ciertas bondades económicas clave a la categoría de derechos socava la envidia, al menos hasta cierto punto. Una de las razones por las que vemos tanta envidia es porque las personas no se sienten seguras en lo que a la base económica de sus vidas respecta.

Si Alemania es hoy en día, según yo creo, una de las naciones más resistentes al miedo y más equilibradas de Europa, es muy posible que sea porque, en lugar de maldecirse sarcásticamente unos a espaldas de los otros, los políticos de ambos lados realmente se sientan a hablar y a reflexionar.

The ability to detect fallacy is one of the things that makes democratic life decent.

Robert Conquest once suggested that 'a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi Minh, with illustrations by A. Hitler.

the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not economics, but ethics.

The new Government is a weak one—so far as ability is concerned and largely inexperienced. Political

for the first time in British history, gave votes to women; six million women gained the vote as a result of the new Act.

The passivity of the present Govt is beyond belief.

Und bald sollte die tiefe Unwahrheit jenes Wortes an den Tag kommen, das Napoleon in Erfuhrt zu Goethe gesprochen: Die Politik ist das Schicksal. Nein, der Geist ist das Schicksal und Schicksal ist Geist. Das Wesen des Geistes aber ist die Freiheit.

While I had followed a policy of not endorsing political candidates, I felt that the prospect of Senator Goldwater being President of the United States so threatened the health, morality, and survival of our nation, that I could not in good conscience fail to take a stand against what he represented.

The good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism

King told the staff he believed "there must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism….

Hamilton and McCarthy have since become the most trusted henchmen of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, employed as his personal bodyguards. 

Over recent years, it has been extraordinary to hear the Sinn Fein leadership declaring to British and American politicians, as well as the media, that they had no knowledge of the decisions taken by the IRA Army Council, while both Adams and McGuinness were Council members. The

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU VOTE FOR, THE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS GETS IN. But

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It gives us a better perspective of our place. We hold our history so dear, our politics so tight. But in the fullness of time, all histories fade. Rome, Ephesus, the Incan and Mayan cultures. The wheel of time turns round and round and proves change is part of nature. The problem comes in trying to interfere with nature or to think we know more than nature. Our failures are humbling. The more I learn, the more I see that, in the end, nature will prevail.

I don't think so. It gives us a better perspective of our place. We hold our history so dear, our politics so tight. But in the fullness of time, all histories fade. Rome, Ephesus, the Incan and Mayan cultures. The wheel of time turns round and round and proves change is part of nature. The problem comes in trying to interfere with nature or to think we know more than nature. Our failures are humbling. The more I learn, the more I see that, in the end, nature will prevail.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.

Ako ?e ve? netko biti moj spasitelj, onda sam htjela da to bude predsjednik i nitko drugi.

One man spat out at Wilkes, "I would rather vote for the Devil than for you," to which Wilkes replied, "And if your friend is not standing?