Quotes About Understanding

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

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.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.