Political Quotes - Page 35

• Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

  Russell M. Nelson

  World, Failing, Economic

  "Salvation and Exaltation" by Russell M. Nelson, www.lds.org. April 2008.

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• It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.

  Rick Perlstein

  Sex, Mean, Top Down

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• The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

  Armond White

  Men, White, Historical

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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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• Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it

  Pat Sajak

  Kind, Difficult, Pornography

  "Sleaze as Political Biography: The Truth About Hillary by Edward Klein". www.tribuneindia.com. September 04, 2005.

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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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• 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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• There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.

  Harry Browne

  Fighting, Drug Use, Epidemics

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• All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gun, People, Pussy

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Moral, Force, Dangerous

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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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• I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Thinking, People

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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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• I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

  John Marston

  Men, Principles, Ems

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• When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Lying, Politics, Serious

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• I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

  David Dinkins

  Jobs, Giving Up, School

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• Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Relative Value, Confusion, Democracy

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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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• Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

  Kenneth Keating

  Going Away, Problem, Reflexes

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• In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Medicine, Long, Recognition

  "Old rhetoric in new times" by Thomas Sowell, townhall.com. August 26, 2003.

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