Political Quotes - page 2

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar)
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. View quote
Ronald David Laing
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. View quote
P. D. James
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. View quote
George Orwell
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. View quote
George Orwell
[N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so. (Eric Hobsbawm)
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. View quote
Václav Havel
Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class. View quote
Mikheil Saakashvili
The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. View quote
Will Rogers
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. View quote
Henry Adams
Political criticism is our enemies' best friend. View quote
Bernard Kerik
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. View quote
John Stuart Mill
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. (Stephen Leacock)
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. View quote
Hannah Arendt
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. View quote
Molière
We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong