Quotes of: Political-act Keyword

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

P. J. O'Rourke

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

Ed Gillespie

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

Karl Rove

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

Nate Silver

I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

Vicky Hartzler

[Joan C. Williams] Food has always been a class code, and since Alice Waters, the way to give an upper-middle class act is with food that is fresh and local...The class code of the upper-middle class literally links morality and political virtue with...

Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity

A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all right, proclaim it isn't alright, and talk abo...

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, ...

Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: An Anthology of his Writings on the Country and Its People

Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an act of aggression or coercion. It was never meant to be a cause or a prop for a cause. Or something to pacify and make thousands go to bed happy an...

Murray Pura

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk...

Mohsin Hamid

An important ethical function of identity politics, in this context, is to highlight that obstacles to the self-development of individuals, and to the formation and exercise of their agency, emerge in complex cultural and psychic forms, as well as th...

Politics of Identity: Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemas of Difference

Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and...

C. JoyBell C.

The best politics is no politics.

Henry M. Jackson

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.

Liquidation

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....

Why I Write

Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

Robert Kiyosaki

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Kate Millett

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

Rush Limbaugh

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

Shane Claiborne

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.

Angela Merkel

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

David Blunkett