Political Quotes - Page 42

We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.

My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the political changes in our lives are not the people who read poetry, unfortunately. Poetry not specifically aimed at political revolution, though, is beneficial in moving people toward that kind of action, as well as other kinds of action. A good poem makes me want to be active on as many fronts as possible.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

I wasnt political in order to be political

There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.