Top 100 Quotes About And Politics
#1. The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
Pam Ferris
#2. Julia edged closer, wondering what kind of vocabulary dogs understood. Frederico Fellini, her cat, was an intellectual and she could talk about books and films to him, as long as it was after he'd been fed, and fed well. She had the vague notion that dogs preferred football and politics.
Lisa Marie Rice
#3. For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.
Ellen Willis
#4. Decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken, ones that did not solve the problem at hand but that fit with the interests or beliefs of the people in power.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
#5. Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.
Peter Jacobson
#7. Religion and politics are inseparable because the values of our faith should inform what we value in our politics. They both seek to answer questions about the good life.
Jim DeMint
#8. I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.
Duncan Hunter
#9. My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.
Serj Tankian
#10. David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.
John Stossel
#11. I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.
Millard Fillmore
#12. Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.
Gloria Estefan
#13. In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.
Luis Suarez
#14. There are two things in life I never discuss, Religion and Politics. That is the only way one can have a serene life.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#15. Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.
Steven Raichlen
#16. Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
James MacGregor Burns
#17. Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a large scale,
Robert M. Sapolsky
#18. Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.
Joseph Campbell
#20. If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.
Cal Thomas
#21. I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.
Frank Luntz
#22. In Elizabethan England or classical Athens ... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
Diane Paulus
#23. Without a clear focus on the scandal of wage labor and original accumulation, on capitalism's awful history of possession and dispossession, both art and politics mistake images for the enemy.
Anonymous
#24. We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
Neil Patrick Harris
#25. We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.
Stephen Colbert
#26. Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.
Carl Bernstein
#27. It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
Hedy Lamarr
#28. Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.
Orrin Woodward
#29. Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Paul Wellstone
#30. The serious fact is that the bulk of the really important things economics has to teach are things that people would see for themselves if they were willing to see. - Frank Knight, "The Role of Principles in Economics and Politics
Bryan Caplan
#31. Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
Salman Khurshid
#32. He was in his second year of a Philosophy and Politics degree and had no idea what to do afterwards. Open a philosophy shop perhaps. For his keep he gave private English lessons or proof
Eve Harris
#33. On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear in the human heart - and their solution also lies in the human heart.
Joseph Goldstein
#34. In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
Shirley Temple
#35. For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.
Vincent Price
#37. Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.
Mel Gibson
#38. People who have been in and around government and politics their entire lives may not be able to see the truth. Our government must be fundamentally reformed. The system has to be changed. Our politics can no longer tinker on the edges.
Carly Fiorina
#39. Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.
Li Keqiang
#40. All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
Camille Paglia
#41. Most people hates politicians and politics itself:but always vote during election to elect a president. I am always tempted to ask who a politician is ?
Aboagye Williamson De-graft
#42. The problem is that faith based upon twisted information is nothing more than delusion - and delusion leads to division. It divided humanity, taking us into endless wars - separating us by race, religion, and politics.
R. Brown
#43. I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
Todd Gitlin
#44. That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest.
Michael Crichton
#45. Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment ... Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new ...
Svetlana Alliluyeva
#46. The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Jerry Falwell
#47. I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai
#48. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell
#49. I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.
Tony Blair
#50. paper-pushers can't figure me out. all they understand is bullshit and politics, which amounts to the same thing.
Peter Benchley
#51. Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they have acquired all available information, cannot do anything but accept on authority the opinions of those better qualified.
Frank P. Ramsey
#52. When religion and politics ride the same cart, when that cart is driven by a living holy man (baraka), nothing can stand in their path.
Frank Herbert
#54. You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.
Rob McKenna
#55. What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake
#56. When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
Frank Herbert
#57. While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.
Jonathan Sacks
#58. The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.
Simon Jenkins
#59. Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.
Doris Salcedo
#61. In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
Ted Cruz
#62. I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
Alexandra Wentworth
#63. Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.
Hilary Duff
#64. It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
Jane Fonda
#65. I find that all these subjects that I'm dealing with tend to lead me to religion and politics one way or another. It's not something that I necessarily want to address, but it seems like it's screaming at me to pay attention to it.
Robert Longo
#66. I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.
Bill Scott
#67. Compulsory heterosexuality produces not the homosexual but differences, conflicts and hierarchies among homosexualities at the level of identity, culture, and politics.
Steven Seidman
#68. We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.
John Henrik Clarke
#69. Three rules of hospitality industry.
1. Always smile no matter what.
2. Never discuss religion and politics
3. You may wear a torn underwear inside but always wear the three piece suit outside.
Himmilicious
#70. I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.
Tucker Carlson
#71. There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic ... Just like rock climbing.
David Schuller
#72. Faith and politics are now one and the same," he went on. "Perhaps it was always so, but it seems to have reached new extremes in our troubled century, do you not think? A man's religion tells me where his political loyalties lie, far more than his place of birth or his language.
S.J. Parris
#73. Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
Talib Kweli
#74. At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.
Rankin
#75. And she never had, Doug mused, because war and politics go for the big view and trample all over the little guy. France during the Revolution or a steamy pit of a jungle in Nam. It never changed. He knew just what it felt like to be helpless. He wasn't going to feel that way ever again.
Nora Roberts
#76. As a woman with strong opinions talking about technology and politics is not always welcome in Germany. Nope, it's more like having a great cheerleader team behind me. People who follow my journey know I have a slightly colorful personality. The rest skipped out long ago.
Angela Merkel
#77. I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.
Hillary Clinton
#79. This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.
Denis De Rougemont
#80. I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.
Elaine Pagels
#81. Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#82. Four days, eight days, twelve days passed, and he was invited to teas, to suppers, to lunches. They sat talking through the long green afternoons - they talked of art, of literature, of life, of society and politics. They ate ice creams and squabs and drank good wines.
Ray Bradbury
#83. In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature.
Ali Sina
#84. I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves ... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.
Gabriel Orozco
#85. Love and Politics should be on the reading list of all activists and academics seeking to understand how feminist theory gives perspective and power to strategy and action. Charlotte Bunch, author of Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action
Carol Anne Douglas
#86. I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
Barack Obama
#87. There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#88. With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist.
Ayelet Waldman
#89. I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
Evan Bayh
#90. Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
Antonio Damasio
#91. The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.
Mark Helprin
#92. Always remember: Business is War.
At the end of the day, the one with access to the best intel wins. This
applies as much to business and politics as it does to the military. Ask
every single billionaire and military or political strategist out there.
They will all confirm that as fact.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#93. The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
Nancy Gibbs
#94. The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.
Paul Fry
#95. Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in public life, religion has been relegated to the private and the personal.
Paul Copan
#96. I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?
Marcel Ophuls
#97. Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it's actually the conflation of religion and politics - every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#98. In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
Wallace Shawn
#99. Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?
Eugene Mirman
#100. Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
Charles Kennedy
