A Quote by Honeysuckle Weeks

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

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Honeysuckle Weeks
British - Actress
Born: August 1, 1979

Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.

Ken MacLeod

My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.

Serj Tankian

The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

David Hume

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Brit Marling

You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television.

Kevin Spacey

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

Vernor Vinge

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

Alvin Dark

Marriages may come and go, but the game must go on.

Felix Unger

I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.

Kapil Sibal

Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself.

William Petty

I'm not naive. All politics is about identity, right? Neighborhood politics, cultural politics, issue politics. It's not as though I don't get that. It's just - it has to be, I think, tempered in a way that is for our overall advancement and not to our detriment or obliteration. When I say 'our,' I don't mean just communities of color.

Ayanna Pressley

I was naive and ignorant. I'll never be like that again. But I can't go back. I've come out. I can't stick my head in the sand ever again.

Anita Bryant

If you withdraw from the game, you're out of the game. And we have withdrawn from the game. And we said Bashar Assad has to go. He's going to stay. So we're out of the game.

David Brooks

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