Quotes of: Political-act Keyword

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

Steven Brust

I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.

Stephen Frears

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

Stuart Townsend

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

Vagit Alekperov

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

William Weld

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

Yoshihiko Noda

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Aldous Huxley

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

Bobby Seale

Society is full of varieties, is this possible to make all of them sensitive? Then there will be no politics.

Vikram Roy

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Winston S. Churchill

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Wyndham Lewis

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

William Shatner

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

Fritz Sauckel

A telling example of what it has all come to can be found in the person of Rick Santorum, the junior Republican senator from Pennsylvania. Elected to the House in 1990 and then the Senate in 1994, Santorum, forty, is the apotheosis of the brash newer...

Corruption of American Politics: What Went Wrong and Why

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline us toward war as a general matter... With ci...

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

[I]t must be owned, that liberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence: and in those contests, which so often take place between the one and the other, the latter may, on that acc...

Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberalism as espoused by, for instance, Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer. According to them, antagonistic interests do not exist between capitalists, as own...

The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy

The argument that personal moral views should not be imposed on others when it comes to lawmaking is incoherent and misleading. It is incoherent because a great deal of law implicitly "imposes" a particular moral view on the wider society. It would b...

God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society

To understand our faith -- to theologize in the Catholic tradition -- we need philosophy. We must use the philosophical language of God, person, creation, relationship, identity, natural law, virtues, conscience, moral norms if we are to think about ...

God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society