Politics Quotes
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The alt-right has become about white identity politics. Obviously I'm not a white-identitarian, so the alt-right can do their thing.
Mike Cernovich -
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The DEMOCRATIC idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them
William Jennings Bryan -
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato -
Politics should come from human stories.
Swara Bhaskar -
The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, come, I'll take you a football match." They all come - and you suddenly take them to watch theater play on the stage instead. In Istanbul Istanbul, I pretend to talk about torture and politics, but I don't actually. Instead I talk about hope and hopelessness, darkness and light, good and evil, love and separation.
Burhan Sonmez -
As a teenager, I was involved in animal rights activism, and followed the tail end of the first wave of AIDS awareness – I was going to protests, and plugged in to all these causes, but I never really made the connection to electoral politics.
Justin Brannan Caninus -
I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.
Elizabeth Ray
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The general will is always right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.
Hanan Ashrawi -
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
William Jennings Bryan -
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
Dalton Camp -
When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
William Morris -
The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.
William O. Douglas
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Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.
Eliot Spitzer -
Politics is a contact sport.
Steve Chabot -
Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.
Jacinda Ardern -
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
William James -
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy
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The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.
Albert Camus -
And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
Tom Hanks -
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
Stanley Baldwin -
We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.
Marianne Williamson