Political Quotes - Page 188

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.

A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.

In Poland, nobody is arrested or persecuted for political reasons.

Chimpanzees can be quite political.

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.

What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the failure to manage contraction. It requires a thoroughgoing reorganization of daily life. No political faction currently operating in the USA gets this. Hence, it is liable to be settled by a contest for dwindling resources and there are many ways in which this won't be pretty.

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by demonic mediation and even if they are not conscious of it, they are worshippers of diabolos.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.

If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

I haven't learned to be politically correct yet.

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.