Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

Lord Hailsham

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

Lord Hailsham

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

Lord Chesterfield

There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

Malachy McCourt

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

Joan Allen

I don't have a political bone in my body.

John C. Calhoun

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

Mahatma Gandhi

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

James Surowiecki

Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited.

James P. Cannon

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.

James McGreevey

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

Edward Brooke

Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

Eckhart Tolle

The problems that we are facing are multiplying on the planet - economic, environmental, social, political upheaval, the list goes on. It's a time of change and transition and, as I see it, we are entering a new state of consciousness. It's a transition between one state of consciousness and another. It's an evolutionary leap that is happening.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Hilaire Belloc

Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

Heraclitus

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Henry Hyde

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

Henry Clay

I had rather be right than be President.

Henry Clay

The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

John Lennon

I always read the papers, the political bits.

John Lennon

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

John Lennon

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

John Lennon

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

John le Carre

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

John le Carre

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

David Brinkley

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Over the weekend traders aren't able to respond to any political news. It's safer to be long than short.

Our pursuit of terrorists does not distinguish by political affiliation,

Walter Benjamin

I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.