Political Quotes - Page 33

• First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

  Huston Smith

  Political Differences, Community, Soul

  Huston Smith (2003). “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

  Huston Smith

  Swings, World, Way

  Huston Smith (2009). “Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.

  Russell Pearce

  Government, Law, Immigration

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• President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming....Why doesn't President Bush just tell the truth? His secret agenda is to dissolve the United States of America into the North American Union.

  Jerome Corsi

  America, Secret, President

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• As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.

  Corazon Aquino

  Country, Order, Wife

  Corazon Cojuangco Aquino (1986). “Democracy by the Ways of Democracy: Speeches of President Corazon C. Aquino, Official Visit to the United States of America September 15-24, 1986”

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• If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

  Tony Judt

  Fraternity, Turns, Objectives

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.93, Penguin

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• The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

  Adrienne Rich

  Feelings, Body, Moments

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with confidence... The true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Wise, Government, Principles

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

  H. G. Wells

  Writing, Thinking, Average

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8611, Delphi Classics

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• The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.

  H. G. Wells

  Ideas, Brain, World

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.15078, Delphi Classics

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• Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Law, Elements, Gender Equality

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• The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Middle East, Development

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• There is a technical solution to every political problem...

  Edward Snowden

  Problem, Solutions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government Lies, Deceit, Politics

  Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.119, Crown

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• The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Party, Church, Moral

  Pope Benedict XVI's Interview with The Journalists During The Flight to Mexico, w2.vatican.va. March 23, 2012.

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• Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Association, Moral

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.134, Ignatius Press

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• You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Country, Men, Law

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• I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Hands, Liberty

  "Mr. Chaplin's Defense", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 1952.

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• I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

  Roger Stone

  School, Kids, Lines

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• I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, War, Heart

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

  Martin Luther

  Running, Fighting, Justice

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• The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Issues

  "Gore and UN panel are awarded Nobel Peace Prize". www.nytimes.com. October 12, 2007.

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• I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.

  Saul Alinsky

  Religious, Independence, Too Much

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• Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.

  Saul Alinsky

  Tactics, Shifting, Action

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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

  Walter Annenberg

  Power, Money Power, Political Power

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