Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.

Peter Wilson

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

Peter Medawar

We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. There is no need to be dismayed by the fact that we cannot yet envisage a definitive solution of our problems, a resting-place beyond which we need not try to go.

Phil Ochs

In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. Here, then, is a lesson in safe logic.

Peter Singer

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

Quentin Tarantino

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

Pico Iyer

When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment.

Phillip E. Johnson

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

Pope Benedict XVI

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

Joanna Lumley

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

Emanuel Celler

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

Emanuel Celler

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

Joel Miller

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

Joel Miller

Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.

Joe Arpaio

I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.

Joe Biden

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

Lester B. Pearson

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

Leo Strauss

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

Leo Rosten

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Lawrence Lessig

A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1% is a world where that tiny, tiny fraction has enormous power. And it's that inequality in political power that enables this corrupted system to happen.

Larry Kramer

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

Larry Niven

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Lewis Black

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

Karl Popper

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Popper

The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

Mohammad Khatami

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform,

Mira Nair

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

Philip Gourevitch

The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

Peter Eisenman

Architecture is definitely a political act.

Phil Gramm

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

Phil Gramm

Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.

Pierre Trudeau

What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!