Quotes on Political

Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom.... Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage to the Arabs and harm us... Our strength is in the defense... and this strength will give us political victory if England and the world will know that we are defending ourselves rather than attacking.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

All talk on Islamic States is just an empty dream. No man in his right sense would accept a nation which bases its political administration on religion, and in a country like Malaysia with its multiracial and multireligious people, there is no room for an Islamic State.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

I don't approve of political jokes; I have seen too many of them get elected.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.