Political Quotes - Page 113

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.

The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.

Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.

Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past.

Poland didn't experience a groundbreaking moment in 1989. We didn't storm the secret police building. The squads of secret police, with all their political baggage, remained unscathed.

Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.