Political Quotes - Page 4

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

Judo should be free as art and science from any external influences, political, national, racial, and financial or any other organized interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of Humanity.

I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed.

The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

Learn to think continentally.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

A military without political training is a potential criminal.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better. You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political. There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.