Top 1200 Good Political Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.

For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.

I'm not a political comic at all, so it would be weird if I just turned into a preachy, sort-of political commentator.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.

Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace... One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being... The people owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength.

My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don't speak.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course that Kennedy and Johnson knew that if any political solution was permitted in the south, the National Liberation Front would effectively come to power, so strong was its political support in comparison with the political support of the so-called South Vietnamese government.

To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted.

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

I have no political weight, and I haven't earned the right to launch some kind of political programme or stand as a candidate.

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.

I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.

The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with political ethics. Ethics is the one rational discipline that demands the establishment of a rational set of value judgments; political ethics is that subset applying to matters of State.

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.

I've never made a political donation to Hillary Clinton or any other political candidate.

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

Equal rights should not be a partisan political issue - so why are all gay leaders in one political party?

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi's style is 'I, me, myself,' I don't think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.

In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.

The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority and other concepts essential to the establishment of a political society. They saw in Scripture political and legal models - such as republicanism, separation of powers, and due process of law - that they believed enjoyed divine favor and were worthy of emulation in their polities.

Certain people in politics and the press felt there was a political spin to 'Cardiac Arrest,' but there was no political agenda to what I was doing.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

I don't consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.