Political Issues Quotes

• In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

  George Orwell

  Birthday, Lying, Political Language

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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  The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

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• I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

  Al Gore

  Issues, Political, Moral

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984... It will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Gay, Games

  "'Ender's Game' author answers critics: Gay marriage issue is 'moot'" by Grady Smith, www.ew.com. July 08, 2013.

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• It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Issues, Empowering

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• Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.

  Robert Warshow

  Equality, Issues, Political

  Robert Warshow (1962). “The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Issues, People

  PBS: Frontline, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I am also very excited by the way in which we can see Paul wrestling not only with his Jewish world and its scriptures but also, by clear implication, with philosophical and political issues that were 'out there' at the time. The thing is that for Paul this is all part of the same larger, whole vision of God and God's purposes. Watching how everything comes together is an intellectual treat of the first order - as well as a spiritual and practical challenge to me personally and to the church.

  N. T. Wright

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Wrestling

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

  Ruben Martinez

  Ethical Issues, Political, Receiving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I truly believe a woman's weight is a political issue, and if one young woman out there can see me and not feel crummy about herself, that's a good thing.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Believe, Issues, Political

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• What we've also got to think about is the limitations of military power. Maybe it's time to focus on the economic issues, and most of all the political issues, because the political failure in Iraq right now is almost worse than the military failure. And the two are intertwined.

  Paul Rieckhoff

  Military, Thinking, Issues

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• The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts.

  Bill Maher

  Law, Oxycontin, Issues

  "Four Questions for Bill Maher". "Good Morning America" with Jake Tapper, www.yahoo.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Issues, Political, Serious

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• It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.

  Joy Bryant

  Talking, Issues, Political

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't feel like I have a lot to offer in terms of an authoritative voice on a lot of political issue. I don't know how to fix the economy, or how to increase the number of jobs. That is not where I spent my life and thought and meditation. I guess I would like to think that the topics that I am discussing - the Gospel, the forgiveness of sins and the defeat of death - goes up river to all problem.

  Max Lucado

  Jobs, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.

  Scott Adams

  Smart, Clueless, Intelligent

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• Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

  James A. Garfield

  Real, Party, Issues

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.586, Best Books on

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• I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. You know, many people are interested in alternative health who are never going to become doctors, or practitioners. That is how I am about politics. I am interested in the intersection of the Spiritual and the political - how spiritual principles apply to the social and political issues of our day. For me, the spiritual realm, is a more powerful place to speak from on those issues.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Powerful, Issues

  "An Interview With Marianne Williamson Spiritual Leader And Author". Interview with Maryel McKinley, www.awarenessmag.com. May 2000.

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• A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

  Tibor Fischer

  Issues, Political, Roles

  "Parallel Stories by Peter Nádas - review" by Tibor Fischer, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2011.

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• People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Believe, Issues, Long

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• Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

  Ross Kemp

  Issues, Greed, Political

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• It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world. To our credit as a species, we have turned this obscure scientific fact about carbon cycles into one of the most important political issues of the 21st century.

  Annalee Newitz

  Past, Civilization, Carbon Cycle

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The letter writers span the spectrum from left to right. Members say they don't want this to become a partisan political issue. In fact, there are reasons administration officials have been cautious in making a genocide declaration.

  Tom Gjelten

  Issues, Political, Facts

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more we neglect real political issues. Political debate in France is crumbling since every single issue is brought to Islam now.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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