Top 1200 Political Promises Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see those separations too much, between what is artistic and what is political. Maybe in painting... no, I don't even believe that.

The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

I'm committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constructive interaction with the world.

The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God.

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are the United States and a number of third world military dictatorships.

People are always selling the idea that they have a magic bullet of persuasion. You won't get poor by shorting such promises.

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

The question is, how do you stop the power elite from doing as much damage to you as possible? That comes through movements. It's not our job to take power. You could argue that the most powerful political figure in April of 1968 was Martin Luther King. And we know Johnson was terrified of him. We have to accept that all of the true correctives to American democracy came through these movements that never achieved formal political power and yet frightened the political establishment enough to respond.

When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.

Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

One knows their capacity to fulfill promises. It should be taken into account before promising the voters.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.

I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.

As a political party, the Libertarians have always been more party than political.

In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!

There is one great truth in western politics that I have been able to see, and that is this: The more left wing your political ideals are, the more naive a person you are likely to be. The more right wing your political ideals are, the more evil a person you are likely to be. Choosing a political standpoint is largely a matter of deciding which failure as a human you are more comfortable with.

There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

The world understands that our country could solve all conflicts with military solutions, but we won't because we have leaders and we have a moral responsibility but we have also have a political - we have a political leader who is scared and who is raised on the idea that American force is the true evil.

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Outside Westminster, political debate must seem like white noise that bears little relevance to people's everyday lives. But political choices made by the governments we elect have a real impact on how we live.

A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.

All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.

Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.

Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring.

I want to make sure that I fulfill the promises that I made to New Mexicans. That's extremely important to me.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

Donald Trump must be taken seriously. He is fulfilling his dangerous campaign promises.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.

Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.

Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. Its a callous political game.

For an Indian audience a double role promises twice the entertainment with somebody they enjoy watching on screen.

ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.

The central base of world political power is right here in America, and it is our corrupt political establishment that is the greatest power behind the efforts at radical globalization and the disenfranchisement of working people.

I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.

When there's a shadow, you follow the sun. When there is love, then you look for the one. And for the promises, there is the sky. And for the heavens are those who can fly.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.