Political Quotes - Page 44

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive greater benefits, than he could from merely his own; so, in forming a confederation, each political society should contribute such a share of their rights, as will, from a common stock of these rights, produce the largest quantity of benefits for them.

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts.

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.