Political Quotes - Page 36

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.

Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.