Quotes by Politicians - Page 39

Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind — the mind as machine and the mind as anti-machine, delighting in its powers of combination and transgression. They fail as well to appreciate the extend to which the relative presence of these two sides of the mind is influenced by the organisation of society and of the culture, with the result that the history of politics is internal to the history of the mind. In these as in many other respects, our beliefs about ourselves resist acknowledging the relation between our context-shaped and our context-transcending identities and powers.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference.
Nelson Mandela
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
B.R. Ambedkar
The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest.
George Washington
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.
Golda Meir
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Richard M. Nixon
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Cicero
One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.
Michael Ignatieff
There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.
Barack Obama
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
Vladimir Lenin
The "good old times"-all times when old are good.
Lord Byron
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
I am a perfectionist in spirit
Bob D'Eith
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself.
John F Kennedy
No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Charles Sumner
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.
Barack Obama
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
Lady Astor
I touched you and my life stopped
Pablo Neruda
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart 'Tis woman's whole existence.
Lord Byron
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
Joseph Stalin
Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert
Kurdistan has a long and turbulent history. Today, it faces a future branching in directions that could lead it towards success or disaster, freedom or renewed oppression.
Davan Yahya Khalil
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
Golda Meir
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
George Washington
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Benjamin Disraeli
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Winston S. Churchill
You're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is supposed to be for everyone. And that's why I'm a Democrat.
Al Franken
Presidents are selected, not elected.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
Decide for yourselves as to what you should thing of those who say there is God, that he is the preserver of justice and that he is the protector of all, even after seeing the practice of untouchablity in the form of man being banned from human sight and contact, from walking into the streets, from entering the temples and drawing water from a tank, is rampant in the land, and yet that land is not spared from being razed by an earthquake, burnt by the fiery lava of a volcano, engulfed in a deluge from the ocean, submerged in the chasm of the earth, or fragemented by thunder-storm.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Wisdom of the Ages: "Valentine's Day" Because she never forgets, especially if you do.
Matthew Heines
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Adlai Stevenson
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
Winston S. Churchill
To be sure, I am not speaking about Christian equality, whose real name is equity; but about this democratic and social equality, which is nothing but the canonization of envy and the chimera of jealous ineptitude. This equality was never anything but a mask which could not become reality without the abolition of all merit and virtue.
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
F. D. Roosevelt
For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.
Barack Obama
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.
Theodore Roosevelt
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
Barack Obama
He would roam about the world carrying his recollections with him, and perhaps some day he would come to forget them, for one can live only by forgetting; but when his grief should dissolve with the years he would be left an empty man, like a smiling automaton, incapable of any affections other than meterial ones.
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
The best leaders are well-rounded, able to draw on whatever skills suits the particular situation at hand. They are determined, insightful, shrewd, and, most important, able to command the attention of the people around them.
Bob Rae
While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
Ben Carson
Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it and never destroy one.
John A. Macdonald
Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.
Aaron Burr
Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.
Adrian Rogers
Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.
Barack Obama
When I was older, I found Iqbal's work hugely inspirational. He argued against an unquestioning acceptance of Western democracy as the self-governing model, and instead suggested that by following the rules of Islam a society would tend naturally towards social justice, tolerance, peace and equality. Iqbal's interpretation of Islam differs very widely from the narrow meaning that is sometimes given to it. For Iqbal, Islam is not just the name for certain beliefs and forms of worship. The difference between a Muslim and a non-Muslim is not merely a theological one - it is a difference of a fundamental attitude towards life.
Imran Khan
I don't actually breakdance.
James Webb
At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.
Barack Obama
Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
Tony Benn
It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it and they would all go to jail! Because Torture is against the law!
Jesse Ventura
People accuse me of having interiorized a feeling of racial inferiority, so that I attack my own culture out of self-hatred, because I want to be white. This is a tiresome argument. Tell me, is freedom then only for white people? Is it self-love to adhere to my ancestors' traditions and mutilate my daughters? To agree to be humiliated and powerless? To watch passively as my countrymen abuse women and slaughter each other in pointless disputes? When I came to a new culture, where I saw for the first time that human relations could be different, would it have been self-love to see that as a foreign cult, which Muslims are forbidden to practice?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.
Frédéric Bastiat
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.
Ron Paul
Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
Lord Byron
... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts only when they could be accommodated to the demands of the lucrative faith. Despite their highly impressive labels and technical appearance, economic models were merely mathematized versions of the touching superstition that markets know best, both at times of tranquility and in periods of tumult.
Yanis Varoufakis
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Barack Obama
There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.
John F Kennedy
It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We've given them hope.
Harvey Milk