Political Quotes - page 7

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views. (Helen Fisher)
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm. View quote
Charles Albert Gobat
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis. View quote
Arthur Henderson
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals. View quote
Bradley Whitford
No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Not all political prisoners are innocents. View quote
David Remnick
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. View quote
John Boyd Orr
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. (John Coleman)
I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law. View quote
Cass Sunstein
Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. View quote
Lionel Shriver
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social. View quote
William Weld
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so. View quote
Bob Geldof
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well. View quote
Bob Geldof
Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum. (Christopher Dawson)
This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions. View quote
Shannen Doherty
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense. View quote
Daryl Hannah
Political correctness is tyranny with manners. View quote
Charlton Heston