Top 1200 Greatest Political Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per se.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

One of the greatest listeners I know is Bob Tishman. That has probably had the greatest impact on my life than any other thing.

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity.

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.

There's no way you can do any homework on Black Lives Matters, and not see that it's a Marxist political organization. It's not about Black Death. It's not about black men. It is a political move. It's a communist political move.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Our philosophy at 8VC is that many of the companies that present the greatest economic opportunities also create the greatest value for society.

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have learned: if you persevere, stick w/it, work @ it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

I want to go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, receiver of my era.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person.

I think I've yet to do the big heave is because New York editors tend to think D.C. guys like me want to do political stories. And I hate politics for its own sake. Politics are so... I don't know, political. Which is an odd thing for a guy to say, I suppose, who has worked at a political magazine for fourteen years.

The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.

I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

My intensity is my greatest strength. It's also my greatest weakness.

Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.

Out of my greatest dispair, was to come my greatest gift.

As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists face the obvious accusation of elitism. The fundamental principle of my work is that it critiques capitalism in very specific ways. I am not interested in generalized political rhetoric. Instead of "aestheticizing" political issues, I try to challenge ingrained perspectives.

We have the greatest Hall of all the Halls. And to be able to join these men, on this stage, in football heaven is the greatest day of my life.

Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

I don't think there's such a thing as the greatest of all time or the greatest in the world.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

Clement Attlee, the man who led us out of the rubble of the Second World War and into a more modern, egalitarian Britain, is one of this country's greatest Prime Ministers. One major reason for this is that he was better able to recognise the wants and needs of the British people than some of his more polished political contemporaries.

To me, kids are the greatest audience and the greatest critics in the world.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

My art gets called political, as opposed to my intending it to be political. I think that's something that happens with black artists or marginalized voices trying to speak truth. Because there are things in the status quo to speak out against, speaking out against them will inherently be political.

Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time, the greatest female athlete of all time, the greatest athlete of all time.

Quincy [Jones] is one of the greatest world figures, of all-time. I mean he's up there with Muhammad Ali, as far as I'm concerned. His humanitarian work, his contribution to the world and music - he's really an amazing man. Even political divides don't affect his humanity. So, to me, that was extremely meaningful.