Top 89 Politic Quotes
#1. I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be.
Courtney Love
#2. And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.
David Levithan
#3. Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
Carlos Fuentes
#4. The body politic: the slow agonizing death of demarcation & the quick Caesarian section birth of chaos.
Dean Cavanagh
#5. The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.
Robert A. Heinlein
#6. Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse
T. S. Eliot
#7. My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.
Michael Polanyi
#8. Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#9. Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#10. Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup.
Deroy Murdock
#11. The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#12. A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.
George Boas
#13. There have always been hucksters, cranks and populists who see a brief rise in American politics, going back to William Jennings Bryan at the turn of the century. The body politic has a way of expelling these invaders.
Joseph Rago
#14. Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.
Jim Cooper
#15. Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
Henry Ward Beecher
#16. The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.
Theodore Roosevelt
#17. Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
Plato
#18. Cautious reticence is, in nine cases out of ten, cowardly betrayal. The best policy is never to be politic, but to proclaim every atom of the truth so far as God has taught it to you.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#20. We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists
believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
Woodrow Wilson
#21. No woman is really humble; she is merely politic. No woman, with a free choice before her, chooses self-immolation; the most she genuinely desires in that direction is a spectacular martyrdom. No woman delights in poverty. No woman yields when she can prevail. No woman is honestly meek.
H.L. Mencken
#22. But Perdition was a much asylum as prison, and when you were standing in somebody else's delusions, it was both polite and politic to play along.
Ann Aguirre
#23. I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
H.G.Wells
#24. A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within ... for the traitor appears not to be a traitor ... he rots the soul of a nation ... he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#25. National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
Tariq Ramadan
#26. Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
William Morley Punshon
#27. Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
Alexander Hamilton
#28. Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness.
Rick Perlstein
#29. Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
Francis Bacon
#30. How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
P. J. O'Rourke
#32. No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations; and patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of the body politic to one end.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#33. Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society is predicated on the idea that religion must be surgically removed from culture.
William Anthony Donohue
#34. A nation is truly corrupted when having ... lost its character and it's liberty, it passes from democracy to aristocracy or to monarchy. That is the decrepitude and death of the body politic ...
Maximilien De Robespierre
#35. The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.
Swami Vivekananda
#36. Love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.
Diane Ackerman
#37. The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
Voltaire
#38. Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
Baron De Montesquieu
#39. Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.
Laurence Overmire
#40. The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.
William Shakespeare
#41. I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
Bayard Rustin
#42. No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
Francis Bacon
#43. I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.
John Bolton
#44. I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [ ... ] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian Question and no Indian Department.
Duncan Campbell Scott
#45. If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.
Eve Ensler
#46. Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered.
B.R. Ambedkar
#47. Avoid the politic, the factious fool,
The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave;
The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason,
Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal,
And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.
Thomas Otway
#48. Patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to one end.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#49. It's for real though, let's connect, politic ... ditto!
We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases,
Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.
Raekwon
#50. If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.
George Washington
#51. There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#52. In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,
the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.
Francis Parkman
#53. Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain't discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.
Kathryn Stockett
#54. If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.
June Jordan
#55. Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
Bill Moyers
#56. I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have
been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
William Shakespeare
#57. There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the body politic, it kills the nation.
Spruille Braden
#59. Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
Charles Caleb Colton
#60. DEMOCRACY is a form of leading state in which the right and power" must be in the hands of the people and absolutely must have a system to ensure the right and power" of the people permanently.
Khem Veasna
#61. Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.
Ban Ki-moon
#62. Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.
Khem Veasna
#63. Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.
Khem Veasna
#64. Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.
Gloria Steinem
#65. Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good.
David Brooks
#67. You may lose again and again ... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.
Khem Veasna
#68. Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views.
Khem Veasna
#69. The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.
A.H. Septimius
#70. In a thing, they can create a pretext coined hundreds of excuses , but the truth is only one.
Khem Veasna
#71. Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.
Bella Abzug
#72. It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism.
Khem Veasna
#73. If you do not clean up your sociaty now, therefore the legacy you have left for your children is nothing other than an unjust society.
Khem Veasna
#74. Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.
Jim Rogers
#75. This country will not be a peaceful place for us to live if we do not make it to be a peaceful place with our fists. Only with our fists, we can make this country a peaceful place to live.
Khem Veasna
#76. Politics is the art of reaching a goal that benefits all citizens of a nation.
Khem Veasna
#77. Can we allow our hearts to treat our people as members of your great family.
Khem Veasna
#78. If you read the books then you have no conclusion you do not dare to kick out this idea or theory "wrong", this idea or theory "right", if you have no conclusion from what you read, your reading is not useful.
Khem Veasna
#79. You read nothing if you dare not giving any judgement.
Khem Veasna
#80. Today you may not understand me and tomorrow you all think as you thought as yesterday; but i believe in my mind that one day you all will understand me; though there is no my presence.
Khem Veasna
#81. Democracy transformed from thin paper to thick action is the greatest form of government on earth.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#82. A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping.
Khem Veasna
#83. Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.
Baruch Spinoza
#84. Politicians sre the same all over.They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers.
Nikita Khrushev
#85. A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal interest.
Khem Veasna
#86. In order for completeness first hand most people have to live with the truth.
Khem Veasna
#87. The problem that is to solve urgently is the ignorance of the people.
Khem Veasna
#88. Virtue inside is the real value of human, if ldp cannot rule this country, of course our country not yet be cured. All LDP (League for Democracy Party) supporters must be clear this point.
Khem Veasna
#89. Everything is acceptable until we stop accepting them.
Peter Adejimi
