Political Quotes - Page 141

I don't want to pretend like I'm clairvoyant or anything, but I had a tremendous sense of malaise about our political future. This is right around the millennium, right around 1999, when I wrote it. The Sopranos certainly reflected that; when I saw that on the air, I was like "Oh my God, I'm not alone." But it doesn't seem that the culture really caught up with that. George W. Bush won two elections... I'm not even trying to say this from a political standpoint. I think there is a resonance to the kind of glory of that period, and the foreboding of what happened.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

But finding a voice-let's be clear-is a political act. It defines a moment of presence, of being awake; and it involves not only self-understanding, but the ability to transmit that selfunderstanding to others...To experience yourself as "voiceless" is a definition of depression, subjugation, and being counted out. .

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

Only the vanquished remember history.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if you bog it down with political allegory, or even if you're doing celebrity allegory. You still need to take the cynical out of it.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.

I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.

I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands - if only instinctively - that anything which seems to suggest that God favors a political party or the establishment of a state church, is wrong and dangerous.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for political conversation.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.

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