Political Life Quotes - Page 4

• Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.

  Rachel Dratch

  News Stories, Issues, Political

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.

  Robert Conquest

  War, Simple, Political

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• To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.

  Umberto Eco

  People, Political, Secret

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Political, Growing, Influence

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Artist, People

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• How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

  John Wain

  Political, Love And Friendship, Bars

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, p. 301, 1988.

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• Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

  Matthew Arnold

  Self, Political, Ordinary

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.113

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• If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

  Jane Addams

  Country, People, Political

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.17, Basic Books

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• The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

  J. William Fulbright

  Political, Program, Difficulty

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• I don't think you could find any person in political life today who has been subjected to more attacks and had more money spent against her by special interests, among whom you have named a few, than I.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Political, Special

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Struggle, Political, Different

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• Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Political, Important, Entering

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• To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, deliberation, choice, decision, etc. that constitute the substance of our political life are not operating. The same is true of overwhelming aversion. The person being tortured who simply wants it to stop, period, is also not a good model for an agent acting politically.

  Raymond Geuss

  Strong, Moving, Addiction

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.

  Dennis Miller

  Political, Needs, Definitions

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.

  C. L. R. James

  Powerful, Struggle, Independent

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• All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into contempt. In every country in which a strong political life is manifested, the secularisation of politics is the consequence. Each stage of that movement has been initiated and effected by those who are most indifferent to dogmatic theology, and each has been opposed by those who are most occupied with theology.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Country, Strong, Europe

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.129

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• All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Country, Law, Scary

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• The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political life. It has parties. It was not - it was dysfunctional in many ways, but it was not a very repressive regime. Egypt, at one time, was the bellwether of the Arab world, was the trendsetter, created great culture, movies, cinema, you name it.

  Hisham Melhem

  War, Party, Names

  "After Egypt's 'Cosmic' Day, Will Army Usher in Democratic, Civilian Government?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. February 11, 2011.

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• I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Regret, Errors, Political

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• There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

  George Will

  People, Political, Erotic

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• Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Political, Cities At Night

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Pain, Disappointment, Optimistic

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• Women in Jordan are participating in all aspects of civil as well as political life - as female judges, parliamentarians, businesswomen. And the evolution will continue. This is not something that happens overnight.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Judging, Political, Female

  Source: content.time.com

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• In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very interesting developments, reflecting the revitalization of community power with a more and more active presence of minorities in political life, including the presence of women who are of course by no means a minority.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Mean, Interesting, Community

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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