Quotes on Political

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us today as Black Leaders representing the welfare of Black people. We won't follow any leader today who comes on the basis of political party. Both parties (Democrat and Republican) are controlled by the same people who have abused our rights, and who have deceived us with false promises every time an election rolls around.

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of this study, to decide in each case the best policy to follow. Now in all political situations we must understand that the principle factor which makes for success or failure is the form of a state's constitution: it is from this source, as if from a fountainhead, that all designs and plans of action not only originate but reach their fulfillment.

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.

I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.