Quotes of: Politic Keyword

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Lord Hailsham

When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.

Nate Lowman

I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehementl...

Kyrsten Sinema

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Youssou N'Dour

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

Arthur C. Brooks

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Jose Saramago

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

Noam Chomsky

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Benjamin Disraeli

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.

Frank Luntz

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

Naguib Mahfouz

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Paul Wellstone

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

Mel Brooks

To sum up what is most crucial in Japanese political culture: the Japanese have never been encouraged to think that the force of an idea could measure up to the physical forces of a government. The key to understanding Japanese power relations is tha...

The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation

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

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

Pat Roberts

While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes' commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.

Cliff Curtis

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Edna Ferber

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

Joe Eszterhas

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.

Jonathan Haidt

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Stephen Leacock

I'd used people's stories and their lives to bolster my political arguments for changing welfare. Now, however, I was running into the people themselves, and I realized that using anyone's tragedy for political gain was cowardly.

Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction