- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics Quotes
Voices on ideology, debate, and public life.
These politics quotes range from a personal statement linking radical belief to the character of one's work, to an observation that casual conversation about politics rarely gets taken too seriously. Together they capture politics as something people engage with unevenly, with real distance between everyday talk and lasting conviction.
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- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like politics.
- Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the game of politics, both parties are sometimes guilty of passing really stupid laws that, in reality, are purely symbolic and have no real impact on anyone.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're sort of interested in politics but sort of upset about contemporary politics, it's kind of wonderful to read about periods who were very eloquent and admirable - generally. People are articulating ideas you can sympathize with or understand both sides of. Or at least feel like one side is saying the right things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gerrymandering at its essence is supposed to be used to reflect the changing geography to ensure representation. But we know that politics gets involved and it's used to benefit whoever's in control. That's the problem we have with gerrymandering.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to do music which inspires the desire to transcend politics, which has a limited and selfish and egoist and unknowledgable end about what anyone knows about existence.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020