Politics Quotes
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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 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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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
George V. Higgins -
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 -
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
Dalton Camp -
It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems
Angela Davis -
Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
Rudyard Kipling -
In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
Eugene McCarthy
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
William Morris -
It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.
Michael Kelly -
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 -
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
Norm MacDonald -
The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention. Releasing such stupid remarks gives her the feeling of being fulfilled. This is the only way for her to attract men's attention.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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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 -
In the long run, feminism’s critique of gender hierarchy must be incorporated into a radical theory of sex, and the critique of sexual oppression should enrich feminism. But an autonomous theory and politics specific to sexuality must be developed.
Gayle Rubin -
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
Stanley Baldwin -
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Honore de Balzac -
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
William Francis Buckley -
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
Willie Brown
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From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
William Allen White -
Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.
Argus Hamilton -
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
William Shakespeare