Top 1200 World Politics Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I have learned that European politics is very much like Danish politics. You have all the rumours.

I like to keep track of all the developments in world politics.

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at the grassroots level, but they are always under threat. The problem in North Africa and the Middle East is the politics of oil. It means that the spaces for truly grassroots politics, involving those masses of people excluded from high politics, are very quickly closed down. They are not really allowed any kind of autonomy to develop, and that seems to be the real problem, which gets us back to the neo-colonial relationship.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression.

Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the "Principe," has determined the development of European history ever since.

People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse. They are opposed by people who also have a priori politics saying that this is the best of all possible worlds, capitalism is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you're just alarmists and so on and they can massage the data so it fits them.

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.

I don't know anything about politics or lobbying in the film world.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.

I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

As a professional entertainer in sports, you get a lot of real-world experience in a world that's not very real - which is a lot of what politics are.

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming of getting a deal with the United States about a new-old order for the world, when the world is split on zone of influence. When you cannot interfere in someone else's zone. Not even to mention internal politics.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.

Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.

It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.

It's hard to talk about politics in a Hollywood world.

I am not cut out for politics. I don't even dream of joining politics.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.

I know I should have never got into politics. And I've learned my lesson. No more politics.

You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

We never believe in divisive politics; we always work for an inclusive politics.

I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.

Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.

I don't believe that politics has to be part of the sporting world.

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.

If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.