Quotes on Political

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Expanding health coverage is not a technical issue but a political one; it should be seen as a right and a means to development.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.

Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.