Quotes About Discussing Politics

#1. And what can we conclude from this lesson, Your Highness?"
Alek glared at the man. "We can conclude, Count Volger, that discussing politics while fencing is idiotic.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. You had to stop discussing politics or you would run right into it, causing no damage to anything but yourself.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

Mason Cooley

#4. The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

Hermann Hesse

#5. To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

Iain Sinclair

#6. A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#7. I prefer that these reserves be spent in arguing whether Mary conceived without sin, whether Christ was God or man, rather than discussing whether my power is of divine origin and if, in short, I am deserving of it. Heresy, then, is tolerable as long as it is not employed directly against power.

Carlos Fuentes

#8. Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

Elaine Stritch

#9. Sam Brewer enjoyed discussing Middle Eastern politics with Philby; Philby enjoyed sleeping with his wife.

Ben Macintyre

#10. I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Moliere

#11. Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

Al Gore

#12. Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.

Lykke Li

#13. Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

Jonah Goldberg

#14. Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it ... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.

John Carmack