Quotes on Political

Time makes more converts than reason.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering.

When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy.

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.