Wendy McElroy Quotes
Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.Wendy McElroy
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
Omar Bongo -
I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
Babasaheb -
There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
Barack Obama -
The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
Larry Flynt -
Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
Rachel Kushner
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling -
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
P. T. Barnum -
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.
Nandan Nilekani -
I'm an economist, not a political scientist.
Dambisa Moyo -
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.
Viktor Orban -
There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.
N. T. Wright -
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
Nancy Gibbs -
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
Cal Thomas -
Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.
Thomas Sowell -
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
Karel Capek -
I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
Queen Latifah -
New Science... Neanderthal and modern humans mated! I knew I knew some!
Crosby Loggins -
Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.
Wendy McElroy