Quotes of: Orwell Keyword

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Aristotle

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Aristotle

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

Curtis Sittenfeld

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

Ellen Willis

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

George Will

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

Lewis H. Lapham

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

P. J. O'Rourke

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

Rich Lowry

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Serj Tankian

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Herbert Croly

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Malcolm X

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

Billy Graham

Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.

Alex Berenson

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Aristotle

More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima.

Bill Dedman