Quotes 1 till 20 of 371.
-
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
-
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
-
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51 -
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
-
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
-
It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
-
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
-
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law of eternal.
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
-
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics.
-
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-
REVOLUTION: In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
The Devil's Dictionary -
Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
-
That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
-
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
-
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
-
...today everything is commercialized--politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services....Everything has its price.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
-
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
All non-politics famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com
