Top 1200 Political Enemies Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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.

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

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

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

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.

Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.

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

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.

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

I do believe that the Barack Obama administration has reached a new low by using the instruments of the state against its political adversaries. Obama does not see people who disagree with him as well-meaning opponents but rather as enemies. That's not something that Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton did as President. Probably Obama's direct descendant in this line is Richard Nixon. And Obama seems to have carried Nixonian tactics to a new low. So, we've turned a corner in American politics that doesn't bode well for our future.

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

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.

Writing about relationships is political. The personal is political.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort of stuff so it can be done. But if you really start with love your enemies, and if you look at the tradition of the first Christian centuries, nobody ever seems to suggest well if they come after us to persecute us, is it alright to kill a few? Defensively, of course.

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

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

Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved too numerous or formidable in arms - even when those enemies were grim Macedonians or Germans. Rather, in times of peace and prosperity there arose an unreal view of the world beyond their borders, one that was the product of insularity brought about by success, and an intellectual arrogance that for some can be the unfortunate byproduct of an enlightened society.

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.

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

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

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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

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

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Every country has its political face and political traditions.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.