Political Quotes - Page 38

If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.

Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.