Political Quotes - Page 81

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.

We have felt for some time that if political candidates or their staff are willing to make the pilgrimage to North Iowa, the least we can do is show hospitality. And it's also a wonderful way to get to know these people who make our political system work.

I have no political aspirations. Thats it.

Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.

Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity-my heavens, that's what proper art renders. We have a paradox. Going into the deepest aspects of inner space connects you with something that is the most vital for the outer realm.

Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.

I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.

Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.