Political Quotes - Page 68

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.

Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense, and most never acknowledge that they were wrong.

African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.

Change no man’s religion, change no man’s politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has and what he knows to the factual creation, within any political reference, of a civilization on Earth for the first time.

The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

Every adult should be able to make as many effective decisions without fear or favor about as many aspects of her or his life as is compatible with the like freedom of every other adult. That belief is the original and only defensible meaning of liberalism.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the existing market fundamentalism engulfing American society, we also need to create new forms of solidarity, new and broad based social movements that move beyond the isolated and fractured politics of the current historical moment.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.