Top 1200 Greatest Political Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

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

In Trump's lizard political brain, all Jews should unconditionally support Israel, so all American Jews should support him, the greatest supporter of Israel in the history of America and Israel.

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.

To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.

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

I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

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

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

Being gay is not a political accomplishment in itself. It's not enough to constitute a political platform.

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

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.

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.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

Donald Trump lives and operates in a political world, but he's not political. This is what people still don't get.

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

Fedor is the greatest, no doubt. For me, in a matter of admiration, he is the greatest of all time. He is a heavyweight who beat everybody. He certainly was 'The Baddest Man on the Planet.'

Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.

We are trying to discover where this approach could have the greatest possibility of large-scale impact. We have to choose wisely and see where there is greatest interest and need.

No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

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

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

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

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.

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

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

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

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

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

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

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.

I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

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.

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.

If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

I'm not a professional political analyst, so my political analysis is worth about what you pay for it.

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

Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

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

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

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