Political Quotes - Page 73

The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot with T.V. preachers (many have minds made of cabbage) but it can also happen with political ideology. When you're young it's easy to drift into loyalties and when you announce that you're a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you're doing is pounding it in, pounding it in, and you're gradually ruining your mind. So you want to be very, very careful of this ideology. It's a big danger.

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

The truth is we have a political system and an economic system controlled by a few extremely wealthy people. Not Barack Obama, not Bernie Sanders, no one person has the influence by himself or herself to take on this enormous array of power unless millions of people begin to work together to demand changes.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody -- from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung -- can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions.