Politics Quotes - page 98

Talk can be cheap, very cheap. It can also be costly. "Speak out!” we say. "Why are you afraid to speak out?” we say. In dictatorships, it can be very, very hard to speak out. Many people have been imprisoned or worse for talk. But even in democratic societies, talk can be hard. It can be hard not only in politics but also in high schools and families and churches and professional communities and other arenas. But even in democratic societies, talk can be hard. It can be hard not only in politics but also in high schools and families and churches and professional communities and other arenas. (Jay Nordlinger)
Nemtsov sacrificed a lot for politics, for a freer Russia - and I'm not just talking about his life, his mortal life. View quote
Jay Nordlinger
With the Constitution, the law, and the politics on the side of doing his duty and securing our broken border, why does President Bush not act? What is paralyzing the White House? Answer: Political correctness, political cowardice, political opportunism, a sense of guilt for America's sins, and twin ideologies that have a grip on our elites not unlike a religious cult. The proud old boast, "Here, sir, the people rule!" View quote
Pat Buchanan
We're used to the idea that women aren't represented in our culture and media and politics and films. The idea that this extended to what was sold as objective - the idea of medicine and science, that they were also underrepresenting women - was just mind-blowing to me. View quote
Caroline Criado-Perez
If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else. View quote
George Carlin
The July Revolution took place; with one bound I became a revolutionist, and acquired the conviction that every decently active being ought to occupy himself with politics exclusively. View quote
Richard Wagner
These are my politics to change what we can to better what we can but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them. View quote
Stephen L. Carter
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? View quote
Gilbert Highet
When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics. View quote
Ron Paul
Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse. (Otto Dix)
In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values. View quote
Diane Abbott
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. View quote
Freeman Dyson
I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics. View quote
Lou Holtz
The assertion of the priority of contemporaneity, the celebration of the present, defines the politics of periodization. It is either a matter of our present, defined as the vanguard of historical progress, or it is the historical present of the objects of study, presumed to be fully grounded in that single, isolated moment of time. In either case, the classificatory impulse inherent in periodization tends to proscribe the more complex temporalities of tradition and anticipation. View quote
Russell Berman
A grand absurdity, a great deception, a delusion of momentous proportions based on preposterous notions and on ideas whose time should never have come. Simplicity, grossly distorted and complicated. Insanity, passed off as logic. Grandiose schemes built on falsehoods with the morality of Ponzi and Madoff. Evil described as virtue. Ignorance pawned off as wisdom. Destruction and impoverishment in the name of humanitarianism. Violence, the tool of change. Preventive wars used as a road to peace. Tolerance delivered by government guns. Reactionary views in the guise of progress. An empire replacing the republic. Slavery sold as liberty. Excellence and virtue traded for mediocrity. Socialism to save capitalism. A government out of control, unrestrained by the constitution, the rule of law or morality. Bickering over petty politics as we descend into chaos. View quote
Ron Paul
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection. View quote
Italo Calvino
Up until our own times men had only received two sorts of teaching in what concerns the relations between politics and morality. One was Plato's and it said: "Morality decides politics”; and the other was Machiavelli's, and it said "Politics have nothing to do with morality.” Today we receive a third. M. Maurras teaches: "Politics decide morality.”. View quote
Julien Benda
When Machiavelli advises the Prince to carry out the Machiavellian scheme of action, he invests those actions with no sort of morality or beauty. For him morality remains what it is for everyone else, and does not cease to remain so because he observes (not without melancholy) that it is incompatible with politics. ... For him evil, even if it aids politics, still remains evil. The modern realists are the moralists of realism. For them, the act which makes the State strong is invested with a moral character by the fact that it does so, and this whatever the act may be. The evil which serves politics ceases to be evil and becomes good. View quote
Julien Benda
For M. Maurras the practical is the divine, and his "atheism” consists less in denying God than in shifting him to man and his political work. ... It is the divinizing of politics. View quote
Julien Benda
Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia. (Alexei Navalny)
There are certain sad appreciations we have to come to about human nature on the basis of these recent wars. One of them is that suffering does not always make men better. Another is that people are not always more reasonable than governments; that public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics. View quote
George F. Kennan
The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House. View quote
Maureen Dowd
The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl. View quote
Maureen Dowd
Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane