Quotes of: Politeness Keyword

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

Sharad Pawar

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Shimon Peres

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

Steven Weber

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Todd Gitlin

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

Tommy Lee Jones

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Vera Brittain

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

William Devane

I am an artist and a political being as well.

Robin Morgan

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Umberto Eco

Even the most political poem is an act of faith.

Life

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.

Voltaire

If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston S. Churchill

I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

Jonathan Nolan

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

Taryn Simon

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

Dennis Kucinich

Résumons en quatre mots le pacte social des deux états. Vous avez besoin de moi, car je suis riche et vous êtes pauvre ; faisons donc un accord entre nous : je permettrai que vous ayez l'honneur de me servir, à condition que vous me donnerez le p...

A Discourse on Political Economy

Wetikos can psychopathically (and thus toxically) mimic the human personality perfectly. If it serves their agenda, they can be convincing beyond belief, making themselves out to be normal, caring, politically correct human beings. They can endlessly...

Dispelling Wetiko

The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he does in his own domains, to bring assumptions and things taken for granted again into question, to shake habits, ways of acting and thinking, to d...

Essential Works of Foucault (1954-1984), Volume 3: Power

My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power. Once you identify the faith with a particular candidate or party or with the quest for political influence, ...

God in the White House: A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off ...

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

When the paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are hig...

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire