Top 1200 Greatest Political Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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.

Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.

I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the (1992) Olympics. I have to win or die.

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.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

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

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.

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.

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

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

The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into one heap will govern the rest... In a pure democracy the ruling men will be the wirepullers and their friends; but they will no more be on an equality with the voters than soldiers of Ministers of State are on an equality with the subjects of monarchy.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

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.

With an abusive political relationship, with a political party that's throwing you under the bus, sister, I'm sorry to say but you don't have a future in this political party. You know, what they did to Bernie Sanders is what they have done to every progressive candidate and every real progressive movement within the party. They allow it to show its face and then they use the kill switch.

The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments are made to secure the political base and frighten the opposition rather than to illuminate issues. In political discourse, information is to be 'spun' to reinforce pre-existing beliefs, and to discourage opposition.

I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.

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

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

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

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

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

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

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

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

My children are my greatest gifts and my greatest inspirations.

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.

We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.

I'm the world's greatest wrestler, the world's greatest singer, the world's greatest entertainer.

Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.

There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there are more. Well - there are hundreds of thousands of people who haven't had a fair trial, who are victims of the political system. But in the Amnesty International sense of the word, most of them are not political prisoners because they are not going to prison for protesting.

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?

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

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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

Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere.

Some of the greatest chefs in the world aren't classically trained. Thomas Keller - probably the greatest American chef ever to walk the earth - never went to culinary school. You know?

The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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

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

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.

Texas really is the greatest state in the greatest nation. Texans - and women all over the country - deserve leaders that care, that listen, and that work to protect their interests.

Writing about relationships is political. The personal is political.

I think just dreaming big and having aspirations is important. So you know I want to be the greatest of all time at what I do and if you're not trying to be the greatest at what you do then you're not doing it for real.

Every country has its political face and political traditions.

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.

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

He's one of the greatest players in the world, if not one of the greatest anywhere.

Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.

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

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system.

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.