Top 1200 Political Dialogue Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.

Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that would make it possible for your political enemies to win next time. If you think about it, that's almost antithetical to human nature.

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.

Whoever entered the political realm had first to be ready to risk his life, and too great a love for life obstructed freedom, was a sure sign of slavishness. Courage therefore became the political virtue par excellence.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in the minority in this House and in the country, were to organize as a political party, they would compel the majority to organize as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

I think music is great at posing a question. It doesn't always have to give the answer, but it can open the dialogue.

With comedic actors, you can write one joke or two jokes, sample dialogue, and they have the capacity to extrapolate.

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder.

Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life.

I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.

India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply enough attack those wretched crooks who would like to make religion an implement to perform political or rather business services for them.

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words.

In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.

A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.

If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents.

There needs to be a dialogue between coaches, fans, players and administrators to promote positivity in the stands.

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

'Khamoshi' gave me the chance to prove that expressions can also say what dialogue could.

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.

I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.

The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.

Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

The political outcome that is desired is one which makes any government sensitive to the pulse of the people and their welfare, allowing any ruling party to govern without gridlock while promoting the political openness that so many of us yearn for in Singapore.

The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.

every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

I am a strong believer that modern political life must rediscover a sense for symbolism. We need to develop a kind of political heroism. I don't mean that I want to play the hero. But we need to be amenable once again to creating grand narratives.

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.