Quotes of: Political-statement Keyword

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

Raymond Smullyan

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your lif...

Stephen Covey

If you have a great mission statement from a great vision statement then your greatness will surpass your own generation.

JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

Dean Cavanagh

Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.

Amit Kalantri

Many witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with other statements they made and also conflicted with the physical evidence. Some were completely refuted by the physical evidence.

Robert P. McCulloch

He had an AM radio playing a conservative talk show. The host was making some very interesting statements about the president. I don't usually pay much attention to politics, but from what the man said, I had to believe that sometime in the recent pa...

Dexter's Final Cut

Fed on a media diet of really bad news, we live in a perpetual state of repressed panic. We are paralyzed by bad knowledge, from which the only escape is playing dumb. Ignorance becomes empowering because it enables people to live. Stupidity becomes ...

My Year of Meats

When people related by blood were so careful with each other, when they were so very polite, there was soon nothing left to say. Only niceties that meant so little they might as well have been spoken to a complete stranger. Such statements did not ad...

The Probable Future

Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemmed the suspicion that people's opinions weren't really their own. "Who's paying you?" was a retort that might follow any bout of enthusiasm, along with...

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Sometimes the grass gets mowed at the house where the writer lives.

Ignition: Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements & Double Dog Dares

We will consider every hand who will try to take our weapons, as an Israeli hand.

Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from them.

Karl Popper

The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and what you do, to statements about them, and how great they are and how they will produce more and profit more from ownership of your product or service.

Jeffrey Gitomer

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

Aristotle

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labele...

Elizabeth I

A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.

Great Ship of Knowledge: Learning Earth's Deathly History

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Dalai Lama

To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it har...

Neil deGrasse Tyson