Political Quotes - Page 49

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.

Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As the criminology argument faded, gun control advocates began arguing guns were a public health problem.

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder.

Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a cellar.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

It is the members of this business elite . . . that pose the greatest danger to our American way of life. They are the ones who've bought and paid for members of both political parties. . . .

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

I'll always push for what I believe in. That's what you're supposed to do. If you're an American, you're supposed to be part of the political process, especially if you've been denied it.

People should really think about when they see President Donald Trump, they should think about all the places that he was and could be. All the things he could be doing. The political motivators for many typical politicians of which he's not one, Mercy, money, power, prestige, fame, he had all of that.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.