Quotes on Political

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Revolutions are not made for export.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.