Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.
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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.
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Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.
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I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.
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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
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What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
