Political Quotes - Page 14

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Socialism means slavery.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons.... We...are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

For too many of us, it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or on college campuses, or places of worship or especially our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. And increasingly, we become so secure in our bubbles that we start accepting only information, whether it's true or not, that fits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions on the evidence that is out there.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights