Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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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.
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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.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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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.
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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.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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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.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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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.
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People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.
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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.
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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
