Quotes of: Politeness Keyword

The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who perceive the need of cooperation are powerless. Until education has been directed for a generation into new channels, and the Pr...

Sceptical Essays

We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians. But the only way to apply something like scientific method in politics is to proceed on ...

The Poverty of Historicism

When your neighbor walks through your orchard, the polite thing to do is to ignore it.

Chinese

The tyrant has power to play as long as he is the master in his surroundings.

The Conflation: Politics and Politrics Beyond the Ecstasy

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.

Christians and Politics Uneasy Partners

When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller

[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.

Harperland: The Politics Of Control

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Fritz Sauckel

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Paulo Coelho

I don’t belong to a political party, because I don’t feel invited.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.

Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring

I don't about politics," Rabbit says. "That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.

Rabbit Redux

Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman

Scientific Man Vs. Power Politics

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

Texas Politics Today, 2011-2012 Edition

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Principles of Political Economy

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

The Raven Boys

I want to keep politics out of my breakfast. Politics isn’t something I want in my eggs, no matter how scrambled I like them.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If socialism failed, it was for political, more than economic, reasons; and if capitalism is to succeed it will be because it finds the political will and means to tame its economic forces.

The Worldly Philosophers

As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.

Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism