Quotes of: Political-issues Keyword

A contemporary Catholic opponent of Martin Luther complained, "Even tailors and shoe-makers – even women and ignorant persons, who could read but little – studied it (the German Bible) with the greatest avidity as the fountain of truth. Some comm...

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

As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politics, I wasn't going to be a real strong participant. I...

Steve Wozniak

We are attempting to build, within our movement, non-exploitative ways of relating to one another based on trust and concern rather than political expediency. We have serious personal/political intentions in breaking down hierarchical and elitist str...

Nancy Ferro

Harvey Milk: If we had someone in the government who saw things the way we see them, the way the black community has black leaders who look out for their interests... Scott Smith: You're gonna run for Supervisor, is that the idea? Harvey Milk: I coul...

Milk

In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.

City at the End of Time

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Terry Eagleton

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

Glenn Greenwald

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

David Harvey

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

Edmund S. Muskie

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Douglas Sirk

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Gustave Flaubert

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Konrad Adenauer

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Roger Stone

It's not polite to ask if a man has a big salami in his pants, okay?

Shattered

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

On Liberty

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

Dick Murphy

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

Maynard Jackson

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

Rob Reiner

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

Jude Law

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

Omar Bongo

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

Otto von Bismarck