P Quotes
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“Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.”
“Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.”
“Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.”
“Politics are important but your soul lasts forever. So, you know, you make ... decisions on what you think is right or wrong and then you just go forward.”
“Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.”
“Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.”
“Politics are not my arena. Music is.”
“Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)
“Politics are not the task of a Christian.”
“Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.”
“Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.”
“Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.”
Source: Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson
“Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.”
“Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early.”
“Politics are the divine science, after all.”
Source: Works: with a life of the author
“Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.”
“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”
“Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.”
Source: The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures
“Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.”
Source: In Defense of Politics
“Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.”
“Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.”
“Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”
“Politics at its worst is ugly, but politics at its best is magnificent. Because it's not just about policy. It is soulcraft and it is moral.”
“Politics becomes a part of a writer's working life. The writer's protagonists are born in the context of the feelings that this atmosphere evokes. How can writers separate themselves from these feelings and create protagonists that come from Mars? Even writers who only write about psychological or internal issues or about love are writing under their prevailing atmosphere, and their writings will take on the hue of the time, place, and mood of their environment.”
“Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.”
Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir
“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.”
“Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.”
“Politics bores you?" Bronsen said.
Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars, fools, and tricksters, and I have as yet come across no evidence to the contrary. They can do great damage, and rarely any good. It is the job of the sensible man to try and protect civilization from their depradations.”
Source: The Dream of Scipio
“Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.”
“politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.”
Source: Ferraro: My Story
“Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.”
“Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.”
Source: Darkness at noon
“Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.”
Source: Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
“Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
“Politics can be very mean and dirty. The things politicians say about each other, and what activists say, I had a brief glimpse of that for a couple of days. If I ever had any questions about whether I wanted to run for office, I now know the answer - I don't.”
“Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.”
“Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.”
“Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.”
“Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'”
“Politics creates an almost endless time horizon into the future. ... As governor I had the incredible luxury of being able to dream on a grand scale. And this sense of infinite possibility gives politics its romance.”
“Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.”
“Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.”
“Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.”
“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”
“Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.”
“Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.”
“Politics does not end the day of the election.”
“Politics does not make leaders, leaders make right politics.”
“Politics doesn't align with emotions. An emotional politician is most likely to be a tyrannical leader.”
“Politics doesn’t mean affairs of the people, it is but a telenovela of sectarian histrionics.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth