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Political Quotes

Civilisation had been restored to the Island. But now the political fabric which nurtured it was about to be overthrown. Hitherto strong men armed had kept the house. Now a child, a weakling, a vacillator, a faithless, feckless creature, succeeded to the warrior throne.

What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man ... the Kaffir is to be declared the brother of the European, to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

There are many people in England, and perhaps elsewhere, who seem to be unable to contemplate military operations for clear political objects, unless they can cajole themselves into the belief that their enemy are utterly and hopelessly vile.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

I often think about how outspoken he's been about various political issues in this way that I feel like we should expect from punk and hardcore frontmen who are very quiet about those things.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Imagine' is a big hit almost everywhere - anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic, but because it is sugar-coated, it is accepted. Now I understand what you have to do. Put your political message across with a little honey.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

Till the enemy's weakness is known, he should be kept on friendly terms.

The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.

These political fiends are not half sick enough yet. `Party malice' and not `public good' possesses them entirely.

I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.