Machine Politics Quotes

#1. Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

Friedrich Naumann

#2. The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.

John Burdett

#3. A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. A free America ... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#5. Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Francis Quarles

#6. I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.

Nicolle Wallace

#7. Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth

Gore Vidal

#8. I definitely want to get more active in the film world. My experiences I've had thus far have been really fun, and I definitely feel my best is yet to come in that world.

Ciara

#9. People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#10. By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

Donna J. Haraway

#11. He holds the crown in the nonverval department

Colleen Hoover

#12. Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

William Kennedy

#13. You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.

Paul Theroux

#14. I'm a meat girl and I just love having a beer.

Jill Goodacre

#15. I belong to a gym now ... well, let me rephrase that: I don't belong there at all, but I go.

Ted Alexandro

#16. A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ...

Henrik Ibsen

#17. If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

Michael Arrington