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

• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Politics
  • Agreement
  • Pulpit

• 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

• Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Spanish

• 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

• America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • America
  • Present
  • Politics

• I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• If we treated politics like more of a profession, like it should be, we would all be a lot better off.

  

  Stephen J. Dubner
  • Politics
  • Better
  • Profession

• Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of authority over private citizens and their institutions.

  

  William Greider
  • People
  • War
  • Giving

• Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Leadership
  • Learned
  • Really

• Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Elephant

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

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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