Quotes of: Politeness Keyword

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

William Kirby

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Wilhelm Reich

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

Jose Saramago

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

Rose Kennedy

I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

Jasper Fforde

I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope.

Joanna Lumley

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

Chris Lilley

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.

Antony Beevor

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

Pat Robertson

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Olivia Wilde

In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'

P. J. O'Rourke

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

Richard Armitage

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

William S. Burroughs

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

George Bernard Shaw

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

Javier Bardem

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.

James Stephens

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

Bjarke Ingels

Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.

Al Sharpton

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Booker T. Washington