Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

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• I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Vanity

• The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Politics
  • President
  • Once

• Politics is the art of the next best.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Art
  • Best
  • Politics

• I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • Important
  • Bad

• Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Now

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Perfect
  • Animals
  • Vanity

• On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Political

• Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Life
  • Church
  • Failure

• There are no friends at cards or world politics.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • World
  • Friends
  • Politics

• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Why
  • Democracy

• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Politics
  • Human
  • Expression

• In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Know
  • Die
  • Politics

• Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Faith
  • Politics
  • Unity

• Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Politics
  • Hell
  • Vote

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Freedom
  • Politics
  • Press

• I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • May
  • Die
  • Government

• I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • California

• Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Service
  • Literature
  • Adventure

• For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Running
  • Sleep

• The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • People
  • Worst
  • Anger

• Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Politics
  • Conscience
  • Vanity