Political famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
-- A. J. Liebling -
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
-- A. N. Wilson -
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.
-- A. P. Herbert -
Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
-- Aaron McGruder -
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
-- Aaron Wildavsky -
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
-- Abbie Hoffman -
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
-- Abbie Hoffman -
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
-- Abdallah II -
Political development should start at the grassroots.
-- Abdallah II -
I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika -
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.
-- Aberjhani -
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
-- Abhisit Vejjajiva -
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
-- Abigail Adams -
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Public opinion in this country is everything.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
-- Abraham Polonsky -
The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill ... its purpose is to reach a political goal,
-- Abu Abbas -
With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.
-- Achim Steiner -
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
-- Adam Driver -
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
-- Adam Driver -
I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
-- Adam Michnik -
T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.
-- Adam Nicolson -
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
-- Adnan Pachachi -
My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.
-- Adolf Eichmann -
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the German people and annihilated its belief in justice.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares -
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
-- Adolphe Quetelet -
In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
-- Adolphe Thiers -
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
-- Adrienne Rich -
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder
-- Adrienne Rich -
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
-- Aeschylus -
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
-- Aesop -
November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
-- Agnes Repplier -
There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different
-- Ahmed Yassin -
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
-- Ai Weiwei -
If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.
-- Aime Martin -
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
-- Akbar S. Ahmed -
The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov -
Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.
-- Al Capone -
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
-- Al Franken -
As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
-- Al Franken -
I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.
-- Al Gore -
For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.
-- Al Gore -
My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.
-- Al Gore -
The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.
-- Al Gore -
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.
-- Al Gore -
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
-- Al Gore -
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
-- Al Gore -
Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.
-- Alaa Al Aswany -
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-- Alafair Burke -
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
-- Alain Badiou -
It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
-- Alain Badiou -
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
-- Alain de Botton -
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
-- Alan Cranston -
If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
-- Alan Greenspan -
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
-- Alan Rickman -
Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.
-- Alan Ryan -
Your political views really denote your spiritual views.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.
-- Alastair Campbell -
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
-- Albert Camus -
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.
-- Albert Camus -
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
-- Albert Einstein -
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
-- Albert Einstein -
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
-- Albert Einstein
