Quotes of: Politically-incorrect Keyword

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

Harold Rosenberg

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Felix Adler

Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society.

1776

The political brain is shaped like a peanut, only not as big.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

On Revolution

Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.

Shaping the dream

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

A Mencken Chrestomathy

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

The Shock of the New

Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.

Paris in April

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

Real Christianity

You shit sheep shapes, and I shit wolves as brown as bark. It’s all politics.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If a policy isn’t working, don’t change the policy—change its name. That should be taught in Politics 101.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

I planted a plastic plant, but nothing grew but political hope. I watered it with the tears of the voters.

Xazaqazax

The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

Beau Willimon

I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I'll say this: The political stuff gets the press, but the relationship jokes sell all the seats.

Chris Rock

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

Ma Ying-jeou

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

Rick Perlstein

Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession.

Stephen Kinzer