Politics Quotes
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Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
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Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.
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I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any weight whatsoever, it should automatically go to the other side.
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But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit.
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Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
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Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality.
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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
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We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
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In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.
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So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.
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Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
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I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.
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But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
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Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.
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I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.
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A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.
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The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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Gordon Brown now bestrides politics and the media like the Colossus of Dunfermline. Whatever happened to Tony Blair?
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The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
