Political Institutions Quotes

• Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Foundation, Politics

  "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism" by Vladimir Lenin , (p. 5), 1913.

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• Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

  Michael Novak

  Work, Government, Political

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• Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Mean, Independent

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Political, Politics

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• Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

  Hugh Price Hughes

  Race, Political, Progress

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• What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

  Edgar Quinet

  Political, World, Realizing

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.78

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• If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.

  Alan Bullock

  Country, Political, Democracy

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• The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Political, Development, Purpose

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• In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Government, America, People

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• We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Government, Political

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

  Plato

  Music, Plato, Political

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• There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Two, Political

  Swami Vivekananda (2003). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.

  Robert L. Payton

  Self, Giving, Political

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• You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.

  Ron Fournier

  Home, Leader, Political

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• Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Lying, Heart, People

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• I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Hypocrisy, People

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• Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Political, Development

  "Condoleezza Rice plays Hardball". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 15, 2005.

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• All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one.

  Michael Parenti

  People, Political, Doctrine

  Michael Parenti (2010). “Democracy for the Few”, p.286, Cengage Learning

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• Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political institutions of the country.

  Daniel Lapin

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2012). “America's Real War”, p.64, Multnomah

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• Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Struggle, Essence, Perfect

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• Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.

  John Adams

  Stupid, Passion, Men

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.85, Hackett Publishing

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• The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is not reasonable to claim that the people rules itself through the political institutions. In comparison, I find that the standard European system is better, also as a model for global democracy.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Party, Two, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its parties is representative of the political opinions among the citizens. It is reasonable to claim that the people rule itself through the political institutions.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Country, Party, Political Opinions

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart of it is the spirituality.

  Surya Das

  Heart, Political, Isms

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.

  Robert Shaw

  Spiritual, Religious, Art

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