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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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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It's the federal government and the Justice Department. It's a fraud; it's a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
- Bogged
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who's doing what and who hates who and who's doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Renaissance pope, they were not overly concerned with their religion - rather more concerned with politics and power. At that time, they still ruled the world.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because the referendum in 2016 wasn't just about our relationship with the E.U., it was about millions of people and their relationship with politics as a whole.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and brought up in south east London and been very conscious for a long time that people feel politics happens to them and not with them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020