Home / Topics / Politics Quotes

Politics Quotes

Browse 9821 quotes about Politics.

Politics Quotes

“We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.”

Humans May States Politics Results Known Taken Risk Activity Judgment Accounts Criminals Graves Inevitable Human Life Engaging Reckless Disregard Implicit

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.”

Men Way Humans Wisdom Law Opportunity Politics Wealth Economy Citizens Productions Refuse Human Life Liberalism

Book:Belloc: A Biographical Anthology

Source: Belloc: A Biographical Anthology

“Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.”

Men Giving Humans Wisdom Purpose Values Politics Individual Economy Creation Civilization Chiefs Human Life Liberalism Significance Participation Preservation

Author:Lewis Mumford

“All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.”

Humans Political Politics Individual Moral Fate Practicals Human Life Contempt Grandeur Political Systems

Book:Collected stories and other writings

Source: Collected stories and other writings

“The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.”

Knows Humans Political Politics Justice Issues Policy Football Ethics Strategy Human Rights Campaigns Ideology Human Life Death Penalty Civility Political Campaign

Author:John Hickenlooper

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness