Political Quotes - Page 84

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

The press lives on disaster.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory... "The supremacy of corporate economic power... consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation... [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.

The way to stop political correctness is to not do it. If someone says, You offended me then you say I don't care! If they're offended by the truth, that's their issue!

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.

We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.