A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Politics is but a narrow field.

Henry David Thoreau

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Field Narrow Politics

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Henry David Thoreau
American - Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.

Anthony Hopkins

You will always have politics being pushed towards multiracial politics because you have to field a team.

Lee Hsien Loong

Our field is very focused on finding Earth 2.0, and anything we can do to narrow the search is helpful.

Debra Fischer

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

M.I.A.

The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.

Michael Ignatieff

I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.

Alex Rodriguez

Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.

Mahatma Gandhi

I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there.

David Levinthal

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Niels Bohr

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

Arundhati Roy

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is the one field you don't age out of.

P. J. O'Rourke

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.