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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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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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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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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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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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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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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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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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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Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.
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What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
