Political Quotes

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein

Religion, Power, Law

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
Mitt Romney

Work, Long, Negative

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell

Age, Politics, Hatred

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob Dylan

Through, Song, Gone

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere

Great, History, Books

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Plato

Music, Important, Whole

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass

Republican, Party, Safety

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thinking, Word, Whether

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
Ray Bradbury

Politics, Hate, Thinking

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
William S. Burroughs

Change, Mind, Real

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War, Fire, Serious

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

Great, Sorry, Made

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Thomas Merton

History, Study, Hell

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Down, Else, Progress

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.
Clint Eastwood

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.
Mitt Romney

Religion, Power, Freedom

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.
Ron Paul

Revolution, Before, Changes

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.
Mitt Romney

Time, Career, Made

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
Hillary Clinton

History, Husband, Woman

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Milton Friedman

Work, Government, Energy

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
Andrea Dworkin

Women, Expression, Hating

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Milton Friedman

American, Choose, Virtue

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

Live, Greatest, Human

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley

Power, Noble, Gentlemen

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell

Time, Writing, Speech

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
Ellen DeGeneres

Care, Human, Person

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Marriage, Politics, Government

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
Ted Nugent

Good, Rock, Bad

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.
John Avlon

Someone, Try, Rather

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.
Billy Graham

Talk, Audience, Subject

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