Quotes About Politeia

#1. The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

Marianne Williamson

#2. When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point.

Connilyn Cossette

#3. Those that think they're complete on their own, or want to be, don't know how to love.

Jacques-Alain Miller

#4. Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

Nadia Bjorlin

#5. tried to impose 'intelligent design' creationism on the science curriculum of a local public school - a move of 'breathtaking inanity', to quote Judge Jones

Richard Dawkins

#6. No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

John Barton

#7. He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

John Crowe Ransom

#8. I love hands like I love people. They are the maps and compasses with which we navigate our way through life, feeling our way over mountains passed and valleys crossed; they are our histories.

Sarah Kay

#9. I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.

Robyn Davidson

#10. If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

Jack Reed

#11. It's not love that you hate, it's the loved one who betrayed.

Syed Arshad

#12. Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.

Walter Raleigh

#13. Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!

Augustus

#14. The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.

Sophocles

#15. Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Elbert Hubbard

#16. As often is the case with addictions, the fanciful notion of a gradual discontinuance only provided a comforting pretext for more sustained indulgence.

Ron Chernow