Quotes About Love

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

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

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

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

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

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

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

I love the HRC. The initials are great.