Political Quotes - Page 92

Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement from the social perspective. Capital in these cases has not been protected in any way which along with non - interference of the state is what neo liberalism stands for. It has gone the other way around; they have looked for social policies from the political movements and then when they have acquired the power of those political movements they have become in charge of the State.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

The people are learning that you cannot leave decisions only to leaders. Local groups have to create the political will for change, rather than waiting for others to do things for them. That is where positive, and sustainable, change begins.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.