Political Quotes - page 5

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being. (Václav Havel)
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want. View quote
Bruce Schneier
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. View quote
Walter Bagehot
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. View quote
Tom Lehrer
Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community no more. View quote
Malcolm X
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. View quote
John L. Lewis
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. View quote
John W. Campbell
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. (John Arbuthnot)
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation. View quote
Will Rogers
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. View quote
Eugène Ionesco
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. View quote
Milton Friedman
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. View quote
Milton Friedman
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well. View quote
Dan Quayle
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition. View quote
Learned Hand
Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't. View quote
Patrick Murray
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. View quote
John Howard
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. (Henry Fountain Ashurst)
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. View quote
Thomas Sowell
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a ‘science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices. View quote
Mark Kingwell