Vera Brittain Quotes
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittain
Quotes to Explore
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
Aaron Sorkin
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Ed Gillespie
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
Ian Frazier
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Peter Dunne
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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.
Ralph Nader
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
E. O. Wilson
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
Fidel Castro
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Galen Rowell
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Pankaj Mishra
