Political Quotes - Page 89

I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find a way to make a painting that encapsulates it.

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Some soldier will say, 'You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I'm glad you came all the way out here.' And you know, you say, 'Well, maybe one day you'll see the light but I'm glad to be out here with you.'

I had rather be right than be President.

The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is helpful - among other investigations - to look into the economic and political underpinnings of the institutions, individuals and groups who share in the control of power.

Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual self-reliance and energy, causes want and poverty and, in the end, breeds tyranny and oppression.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

In montage's original form as photomontage, it is capable of striking effects and on occasion it can even become a powerful political weapon. Such effects arise from its technique of juxtaposing heterogeneous, unrelated pieces of reality torn from their context. A good photomontage has the same effect as a good joke.

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

Putting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.