Political Life Quotes - Page 5

• Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Political, Important, Entering

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• To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, deliberation, choice, decision, etc. that constitute the substance of our political life are not operating. The same is true of overwhelming aversion. The person being tortured who simply wants it to stop, period, is also not a good model for an agent acting politically.

  Raymond Geuss

  Strong, Moving, Addiction

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.

  Dennis Miller

  Political, Needs, Definitions

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.

  C. L. R. James

  Powerful, Struggle, Independent

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• All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into contempt. In every country in which a strong political life is manifested, the secularisation of politics is the consequence. Each stage of that movement has been initiated and effected by those who are most indifferent to dogmatic theology, and each has been opposed by those who are most occupied with theology.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Country, Strong, Europe

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.129

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• All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Country, Law, Scary

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• The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political life. It has parties. It was not - it was dysfunctional in many ways, but it was not a very repressive regime. Egypt, at one time, was the bellwether of the Arab world, was the trendsetter, created great culture, movies, cinema, you name it.

  Hisham Melhem

  War, Party, Names

  "After Egypt's 'Cosmic' Day, Will Army Usher in Democratic, Civilian Government?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. February 11, 2011.

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• Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

  Matthew Arnold

  Self, Political, Ordinary

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.113

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• I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Regret, Errors, Political

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• There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Running, Art, Lying

  Vladimir Ilích Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1988). “What is to be done?”, Penguin Classics

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• I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.

  Ami Ayalon

  Party, Fighting, Political

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• And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

  Judy Woodruff

  Careers, Long, Political

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• If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Struggle, Political

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• If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Depressing, Political, Ifs

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• You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.

  Bill Ayers

  Eye, Responsibility, Political

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• Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community.

  Jacques Maritain

  Mean, Men, Animal

  "The Rights of Man". Book by Jacques Maritain (pp. 7 - 8), 1945.

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• My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Views, Political, Needs

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Political, Politics, Publicity

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• In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

  Alice Meynell

  Party, Rights, Blood

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• Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.

  Indro Montanelli

  Nice, Italian, Names

  Preface to "Il Pollaio delle Libertà" by Marco Travaglio, Vallecchi, 1995.

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• The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal. Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.

  Kim Jong Il

  Independent, Community, Political

  "Theory of the Immortal Social-Political Body". 1986.

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• Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

  Gilberto Gil

  Artist, Political, Musician

  "Minister of Counterculture". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2005.

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• The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, "political philosophy" means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life.

  Leo Strauss

  Philosophy, Mean, Son

  "What is Political Philosophy?". Book by Leo Strauss, 1959.

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