Political Quotes - Page 149

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech. If businesses in your nations are denied access to either type of information, it will inevitably impact on growth.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Our political press has just been captured by trivia.

Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but they back them with all the passion of sportsmen. In a vague subconscious way they know it is a game, but they happen to enjoy playing the game.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.

For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.

While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.