Politics Quotes - page 4

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. (Arthur Henderson)
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend. View quote
David Trimble
History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion. View quote
Eva Herzigova
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to. View quote
Germaine Greer
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves we are the same. View quote
John Denver
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
In politics the middle way is none at all. View quote
John Adams
Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics. so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
A week is a long time in politics. View quote
Harold Wilson
Ridiculous. But lies were what people wanted; that was politics. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth. View quote
Paul Krugman
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. View quote
Maria Montessori
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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. View quote
Ralph Nader
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. (Marshall McLuhan)
What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men. View quote
William Saroyan
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. View quote
William Wilberforce
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. View quote
John le Carré
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
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