P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.”
“Political leadership is a significant spirit and defense of the armed forces of any state, whereas the armed forces are a protective shield for them. Both are compulsory for each other, as the political leadership has one point, and the armed forces have zero points, which becomes ten points. Otherwise, it stays one or zero, establishing nothing.”
“Political leadership is about achieving tangible good results that make a difference in people’s lives, not offering a message of unity, respect, and honor (though that’s nice, too). It’s not useful to understand world affairs in the broadest possible terms, as a struggle between good and evil.”
“Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.”
“Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.”
“Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.”
“Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to centralized power and impose constitutional constraints on the state. It must also have a state that is strong enough to act when action is required. Accountability does not run in just one direction, from the state to the society. If the government cannot act cohesively, if there is no broader sense of public purpose, then one will not have laid the basis for true political liberty.”
Source: The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”
“Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“Political life is best treated with antibiotics.”
Source: You Can't Google Life
“Political life loves some volatility.”
“Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.”
“Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.”
“Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
“Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the contrary, the essential ideology of Neo-Conservatism is to preserve the status quo, with all of its injustices. Its public relations experts call for "freedom and democracy" without a framework of higher values. They fail to comprehend the need for a paradigm of justice and therefore are blind to what concerns most of the people in the world. This failure is the taproot of terrorism.”
“Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their self-awareness of their power to transform. Liberation movements are a fuller development of the cosmos's sense of harmony, balance, justice, and celebration. This is why true spiritual liberation demands rituals of cosmic celebrating and healing, which will in turn culminate in personal transformation and liberation.”
“Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.”
“Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.”
Source: Saint Joan
“Political opinions come from the heart, but the head claims the credit.”
Source: Export-Import Basics: The Legal, Financial & Transport Aspects of International Trade
“political order, and political decay, presciently drawing attention to perceived faultlines in American society. the American political system has decayed over time because its traditional system of cheques and balances has deepened and become incessantly rigid. with sharp political polarisation, this decentralised system is less and less able to represent majority interests, but gives excessive representation to the views of interest groups and activist organisations that collectively do not add up to a sovereign American people.”
Source: Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History
“Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.”
Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem to have been haunted by the return of a very ancient (preChristian) and very “pagan” alliance between power and religion. It is as though now that religion has ceased to be an autonomous power (the “power of religion,” people used to say), politics has once again become religious.”
“Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.”
“Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.”
“Political parties are on the hunt to search and destroy each other, as though we were involved in some kind of enemy combat, rather than the work of statesmanship.”
Source: Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
“Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.”
“Political parties exist to get bums on seats.”
“Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long as these are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals and ethics of the race; just as religion cannot be amalgamated with the scheming of political parties.”
“Political parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.”
“Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU.”
“Political parties that are predominantly funded by the richest members of society will always be corrupt.”
“Political Party Supremacy are principles where the interests (and manifestos) of a political party is placed ahead of interests of individuals, sectional interests or the interference of another political party”
“Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.”
“Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.”
Source: The Law of Peoples: With, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited
“Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable. It is necessary first to pan though all other poetry in order to become a political poet.”
“Political poetry is the hardest thing to write because you cannot preach to the converted, and if you're only seeking to convert, then write an editorial. I hope I can write about Trump; he's too major a force not to be written about.”
“Political populism always poses a great danger because it disorients people, creates excessive expectations or, on the contrary, prioritises objectives that are clearly not priorities or are simply impossible to achieve.”
“Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it”
“Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.”
“Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it.”
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
“Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“Political power turns your friends round so you could see the other side of them.”
“Political power without economic power is sterile.”
“Political prisoners describe:
- extreme physical and emotional torture
- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality
- sham killings
- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death
- being forced to witness abusive acts on others
- being forced to make impossible "choices"
- boundaries smashed i.e. by the use of forced nakedness, shame, embarrassment
- hoaxes, 'set ups', testing and tricks
- being forced to hurt others
Ritual abuse survivors often describe much the same things.”
Source: Who Dares Wins
“Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.”
“Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.”
Source: Dick Gregory's political primer
“Political pundits are saying President George W. Bush has made gains in two key states: dazed and confused.”
“Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious.”
Source: How the Hell Did This Happen?: A Cautionary Tale of American Democracy