Political Quotes - Page 30

• The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

  Walter Annenberg

  Power, Money Power, Political Power

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  My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

  Erykah Badu

  Hair, Choices, Aesthetic

  "Erykah Badu: A Super Natural". Curlologists Interview, curlology.blogspot.ru. November 23, 2011.

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• Moses led his people through the wilderness and he wasn't permitted to enter the Promised Land. Jesus was crucified. Mohammad founded a state which soon became an empire, so that Islam from the very beginning is involved with government, with politics. And therefore there is a very clear strong political tradition in Islam.

  Bernard Lewis

  Jesus, Strong, People

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• Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy.

  Irving Fisher

  Class, Long, Democracy

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• Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

  Jim Costa

  Government, Wind, Shifting

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• I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Sorry, Taken

  News conference in Chicago, August 11, 1966.

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• A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Notebook, Writing, Gay

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• Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and men are born with indistinguishable minds is not. Freedom of choice is important, but ensuring that women make up exactly 50 percent of all professions is not. And eliminating sexual assaults is important, but advancing the theory that rapists are doing their part in a vast male conspiracy is not.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Men, Choices

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• We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he going to give us jobs-if the white man gives you anything-just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Jobs, Children, Winning

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• All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Years, Ideas, Twenties

  "The principle of federation". Book by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1863.

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• A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Party, Literature, Adrift

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• Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Trials, Clients

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• Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Jobs, Lawyer, Ruined

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• Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

  Anthony Eden

  Politics, Favour, Economy

  1956 In the Observer, 17 Jun.

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• Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

  Robert McNamara

  Management, Economic, Social

  "Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development". Book by Bruce Rich, p. 83, 1994.

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• The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public opinion polls to shape their plans. Results of those polls are informative. But they could hardly be used as grounds to justify disobedience to God’s commandments!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Temptation, Marketing, Campaigns

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• Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims on the regular doesn't mean we have to, too. French commentators are already calling for DSK to jump back into the country's presidential race and ride a wave of sympathy into office. Really, the stakes are greater than even that political prize. If we accept the narrative that only perfect women are raped, we risk sacrificing justice not only for this woman, but for victims of sexual assault everywhere. After all, nobody's perfect.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  Country, Mean, Sacrifice

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• As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

  Glenn Greenwald

  Sex, Energy, Would Be

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• Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

  Greg Bear

  Spiritual, Morality, Tradition

  Greg Bear (2014). “Slant”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

  Greg Bear

  Philosophy, Organization, Individuality

  Greg Bear (2016). “Far Thoughts and Pale Gods”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance

  David Brin

  Book, Character, Past

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• Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

  William Penn

  Men, Rights, Views

  First version of "Frame of Government", April 25, 1682.

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• I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions. I'm not going to be part of political pressure to do this or not do that. I'm not going to be part of that. This is serious.

  Max Cleland

  Information, Pressure, Serious

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• Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Understanding, Church, Important

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.533, Duke University Press

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• It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Jobs, Lines, Impossible

  Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

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