Quotes on Political

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.