Quotes of: Political-power Keyword

As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demoncratic access to the park has also been raised by the increasing number of homeless New Yorkers. Poor people--from the 'squatters...

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can be a religion, a political party, a ball club. Why not also Nature? I feel a strong identity with the world of living things. I ...

One Man's Owl

One simple answer is that there has been a massive rise in the incidence of sanctimony and smugness among the successful that has nothing to do with any change in the underlying reality. Rather, it has been stimulated by politicians who have realized...

Political Argument

The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion and chaos, are in fact defending their political prestige and the economic interests arising from...

Hélder Câmara

Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to the nation, and, indeed, to all mankind. Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and fre...

John F. Kennedy

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

V. S. Naipaul

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Fletcher Knebel

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Oliver Twist

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

What I Think: Essays on Economics, Politics, & Life

Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

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

I'm not politically committed at all in the popular sense; that is, to any party. I'm committed to whatever's best for the normal working person. I'm not a great fan of politics.

Frank Oz

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

Matt Taibbi

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

Mark Cuban

I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.

Pedro Almodovar

Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

Patrick Murray

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

Phyllis Schlafly

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Roy Barnes

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

Russell Banks

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

Mark McKinnon

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

Richard Petty

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Emma Goldman