Political Scientist Quotes

#1. I'm an economist, not a political scientist.

Dambisa Moyo

#2. Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn, one a political scientist and the other an economist, argue that "approval voting" allows voters to express their true preferences without concern for electability.8 Under approval voting, each voter may vote for as many candidates as he wishes.

Avinash K. Dixit

#3. A 2013 study by Riley Dunlap and political scientist Peter Jacques found that a striking 72 percent of climate denial books, mostly published since the 1990s, were linked to right-wing think tanks, a figure that rises to 87 percent if self-published books (increasingly common) are excluded.23

Naomi Klein

#4. I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.

Vaclav Havel

#5. I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

Anthony Scaramucci

#6. Fear brings out the basest instincts," writes British political scientist Sue Goss, "and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation."16

Diana Butler Bass

#7. the political scientist James Payne suggests that ancient peoples put a low value on other people's lives because pain and death were so common in their own. This set a low threshold for any practice that had a chance of bringing them an advantage, even if the price was the lives of others.

Steven Pinker

#8. The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy without committing himself to any ethical position.

Murray Rothbard

#9. I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind.

James C. Scott

#10. I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#11. We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#12. Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Hans Morgenthau

#13. Males are horrible creatures, aren't they?

Sarah J. Maas

#14. The ocean hides the oyster.
The oyster hides a pearl.
Bright armor and heavy helmet
Hid China's bravest girl.

Charlie Chin

#15. Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Max Gallo

#16. I'm feelin' electric tonight
Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99
Got my bad baby by my heavenly side
I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight

Lana Del Rey

#17. Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people die. It al ends happily or it all ends sadly, and the difference matters only to the people involved.

Gabrielle Zevin

#18. You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

E.P. Thompson

#19. The quality of the results you get in life is directly related to the quality of the effort you put into the process.

Idowu Koyenikan

#20. He knew it was the price of enjoying life, that if he was to be alert to the things he now found pleasure in, he would have to accept its cost as well.

Hanya Yanagihara

#21. Again with that slow, lordly smile. Perfectly shaped for Luc's fist.

Page Morgan

#22. There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering.

Frederick Lenz

#23. You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#24. Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back.

Deepak Chopra

#25. It doesn't matter if she wanted it or not. No self-respecting man would offer something like that to a girl, especially one that's drunk.

Krista Ritchie

#26. Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

Walter E. Williams

#27. The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor.

Frank Chodorov