Political Quotes - Page 55

It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy.

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

Politically, as a result of Citizens United, billionaires are now able to spend as much money as they want on campaigns, which means that you have a political system which is heavily dominated by corporations and wealthy individuals.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.