P Quotes
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“Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.”
“Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.”
“Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.”
Source: Chinatown ; The Last Detail: Screenplays
“Politicians, you know Harry Reid hates you. We get it. But when somebody from "The New York Times" or "The Washington Post" is saying this stuff, that's different, that's offensive, that's wrong.”
“Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.”
“Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.”
“Politicized science is like a prostitute with an STD.
You know she has been fucked by a dirty politician.”
“Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.”
“Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed at telling Bush`s story yielded no tangible dividends.”
“Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.”
“politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.”
“Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.”
Source: The Conscience of a Conservative
“Politics - a lucrative game for the ludicrous.”
“Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.”
“Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.”
“Politics always change. Stories never do.”
Source: It
“Politics always lags behind economics, far behind. The state apparatus is far more resistant than is possible to believe; and it succeeds, at moments of crisis, in organizing greater forces loyal to the regime than the depth of the crisis might lead one to suppose. This is especially true of the more important capitalist states.”
“Politics always puts forward Ideas: Nation, Empire, Union, Economy, etc. But none of these forms has value in itself; it has it only insofar as it involves concrete individuals. If a nation can assert itself proudly only to the detriment of its members, if a union can be created only to the detriment of those it is trying to unite, the nation or the union must be rejected. We repudiate all idealisms, mysticisms, etcetera which prefer a Form to man himself.”
Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity
“Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.”
“Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.”
“Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.”
Source: Letters from Freedom: Post–Cold War Realities and Perspectives
“Politics and football don't mix.”
“Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.”
Source: THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD
“Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.”
“Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.”
“Politics and life go hand in hand.”
“Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.”
“Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.”
“Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.”
“Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.”
“Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.”
“Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.”
“Politics and religion are topics that people tend to stay away from in their conversations, because they're polarising. But they are important topics, so they should be discussed the most, so we should know each other's opinions on them.”
“politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.”
Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm
“Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.”
“Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.”
Source: THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.”
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky
“Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.”
“Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.”
“Politics and the press; two cherished institutions that spoke with tongues so forked they could double for fine dinnerware.”
Source: One False Move
“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.”
Source: Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace
“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.”
“Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.”
“Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.”
“Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.”
“Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.”
“Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.”
“Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.”