Political Jargon Quotes

#1. There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

Mario Monti

#2. I'll say I'm sorry for the rest of my life if you'll forgive me," he whispered in her ear.
"I want to hate you."
He pressed his forehead to hers. "You want to, but you don't?"
"I love you, you ass.

Bernadette Marie

#3. Yet, when the city sleeps;
When all the cries are still:
The stars and heavenly deeps
Work out a perfect will.

Lionel Johnson

#4. Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.

Brian Sewell

#5. Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.

George MacDonald Fraser

#6. To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#7. What is to come is more important than what has already been.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Berthold Auerbach

#9. I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?

Margaret Thatcher

#10. A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.

Steven Pressfield

#11. And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

Louise Slaughter

#12. Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

Subcomandante Marcos

#13. One day, the idea that God loved me dropped from my head into my heart.

Joyce Meyer

#14. For my heart was softened by my return, and such a change had come to pass, that I felt like on who was toiling home barefoot from distant travel, and whose wanderings had lasted many years.

Charles Dickens

#15. Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

Criss Jami