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Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to the corporations that funded their election campaigns.
— Steven Magee
The nation state has taken the place of God. Responsibilities for education, healing and public welfare which had formerly rested with the Church devolved more and more upon the nation state ... National governments are widely assumed to be responsible for and capable of providing those things which former generations thought only God could provide - freedom from fear, hunger, disease and want - in a word: "happiness".
— Lesslie Newbigin, The other side of 1984
If you do not want to be lied to, then you need to stop following politics.
— Steven Magee
Modern life is, for most of us, a kind of serfdom to mortgage, job and the constant assault to consume. Although we have more time and money than ever before, most of us have little sense of control over our own lives. It is all connected to the apathy that means fewer and fewer people vote. Politicians don’t listen to us anyway. Big business has all the power; religious extremism all the fear. But in the garden or allotment we are king or queen. It is our piece of outdoors that lays a real stake to the planet.
— Monty Don, My Roots: A Decade in the Garden
The Democratic Party would like to be re-elected so that they can continue to uphold almost no Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) whistle-blower complaints, enforce hardly any police internal affairs allegations, and corrupt corporations with lobbyists can continue operating outside of the law.
— Steven Magee
The writer of history, I believe, has a number of duties vis-à-vis the reader, if he wants to keep him reading. The first is to distill. He must do the preliminary work for the reader, assemble the information, make sense of it, select the essential, discard the irrelevant- above all, discard the irrelevant - and put the rest together so that it forms a developing dramatic narrative. Narrative, it has been said , is the lifeblood of history. To offer a mass of undigested facts, of names not identified and places not located, is of no use to the reader and is simple laziness on the part of the author, or pedantry to show how much he has read.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History:  Selected Essays
Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.
— David Baldacci, The Target
. And it especially cannot endure when powerful groups in that society seek at every turn to undermine and destroy its very being. The threats to democracy are not always from enemies abroad. They can come from those within who espouse the language of democracy and use the liberties afforded them by democratic institutions to undermine the substance of democracy. Weimar cautions us to be wary of those people as well. What comes next can be very bad, even worse than imaginable.
— Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
The Democratic Party of the USA would greatly appreciate your cooperation with re-installing Mr & Mrs Pinocchio into the White House.
— Steven Magee
[H]e quoted eloquently from the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and a section which had been stricken from his party's platform seventy-five years ago. He was not quite clear on what all this had to do with [the present situation], but it was noble and stirring and would bring in a lot of votes.
— Mark Clifton, They'd Rather Be Right
Those who are not true leaders or elders will just affirm people at their own immature level, and of course immature people will love them and elect them for being equally immature. You can fill in the names here with your own political disaster story. But just remember, there is a symbiosis between immature groups and immature leaders, I am afraid, which is why both Plato and Jefferson said democracy was not really the best form of government. It is the safest. A truly wise monarch would probably be the most effective at getting things done.
— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.
— Joe Haldeman, Mindbridge
Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Maybe Trünicht was to society what a cancer cell could be to the body—consuming the healthy cells’ nutrition so that it alone would multiply, grow stronger and bigger, and at last kill its host. Trünicht would agitate for war one day, insist on democracy the next, and steadily increase his power and influence while never taking responsibility for anything he said. Therefore, the stronger he got, the weaker society would become, until he would finally consume it.
— Yoshiki Tanaka, 銀河英雄伝説 2 野望篇 [Ginga eiyū densetsu 2]
So spoke the man whose importance originated in the golden harvest he had reaped with the resistless hand of force, from the the legal, but unfortunate possessors, in a far distant region, where the conviction of riches proves certain destruction to the hapless natives, and poverty is considered as the greatest crime their European plunderers can possibly be accused of.
— Helen Craik, Stella of the North
One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.
— Elizabeth Bradley
When a great man stands on a land for a moment, the land becomes not just a great land for a moment, but a great landmark!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The Democrats would like you to believe that the USA is the 'Greatest nation on Earth'. Is this true? The Republicans answer this question by stating there is a need to 'Make America Great Again
— Steven Magee
By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and often the most atrocious actions, for which persons in a humble line would be exemplarily punished, while men and women of rank claim the privilege of being infamous.
— Eliza Parsons, The Girl of the Mountains
Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating...... Society is like the body of a chicken: the chicken's foot is hard and insensitive while the eye is very alive. And there are beings who embody the cells of the eyes and others who embody the cells of the feet, of the wings, or of the anus.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagia
That which makes the church "radical" and forever "new" is not that the church tends to lean toward the left on most social issues, but rather that the church knows Jesus whereas the world does not. In the church's view, the political left is not noticeably more interesting than the political right; both sides tend towards solutions that act as if the world has not ended and begun in Jesus.
— Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
In fact, even Tillich's socialism was accommodationist because it continued the Constantinian strategy: The way to make the church radical is by identifying the church with secular "radicals", that is, socialists.
— Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.
— Peter Singer, Writings on an Ethical Life
There's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Nigeria.
— Saminu Kanti
Ten men shouting will control ten thousand who choose to remain silent.
— Joseph J. Haeggquist
They declare that it is unpatriotic and disruptive to question the workings of authority--but patriotic to institute harsh and regressive policies that benefit the wealthy, undermine social programs that serve the needs of the great majority, and subordinate a frightened population to increased state control.
— Noam Chomsky
Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things to do, not politics. Only the third rate, the most unintelligent part of a country, moves into politics.
— Osho, The Secret of Secrets
Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.
— Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick
For having been educated in a convent, she knew nothing of the customs or manners of the world; and found it difficult to understand that among a people piquing themselves on their liberty, it was the custom to shut a man up in perpetual confinement, to enable him to pay his debts.
— Charlotte Turner Smith, Ethelinde, or the Recluse of the Lake
We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method
—  should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?
Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hear
— Amit K Ghosh
There will come a time when Satan will throw a veil over the earth...and convince us that he does not exist. Look at the extreme degradation of our politics, values and loyalty and tell me that day is not today.
— James Morris Robinson, Genesis: A New World Order
They will come a time when Satan will throw a veil over the earth...and convince us that he does not exist. Look at our politics and degradation of values and loyalty and tell me that day is not today.
— James Morris Robinson, Genesis: A New World Order
Republicans are the drag queens of politics. Peel away the pules for family, faith and fetuses and one discovers either neoconservative welfare-warfare statists or global social democrats ...
— Ilana Mercer, Broad Sides - One Woman's Clash with a Corrupt Culture
To Donal Trump, making America great means making the people great. To the political cast, conversely, making America great means making government great.
— Ilana Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed
To Donald Trump, making America great means making the people great. To the political cast, conversely, making America great means making government great.
— Ilana Mercer, The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed
Moynihan, when he was ambassador to the United Nations, produced the same effect when he attacked the Third World. These attacks aroused great admiration here; for example, when he denounced Idi Amin of Uganda as a "racist murderer." The question is not whether Idi Amin is a racist murderer. No doubt the appellation is correct. The question is, what does it mean for Moynihan to make this accusation and for others to applaud his honesty and courage in doing so? Who is Moynihan? He served in four administrations, those of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford - that is to say, administrations that were guilty of racist murder on a scale undreamed of by Idi Amin. Imagine that some minor functionary of the Third Reich had correctly accused someone of being a racist murderer.
— Noam Chomsky, On Language
The liberal press cannot question the basic doctrine of the state religion, that the United States is benevolent, even though often misguided in its innocence, that it labors to permit free choice, even though at times some mistakes are committed in the exuberance of its programs of international goodwill. We must believe that we "Americans" are always good, though, to be sure, fallible.
— Noam Chomsky, On Language
Giving an opportunity to others is not political act
— Abdulsalam Unshur
One chance missing, makes losing more chances.
— Abdulsalam Unshur
Terrorism is the use of violence or intimidation in the pursuit of a political aim. The highest political aim is the creation and enforcement of law. Cops use violence and intimidation to enforce law. Therefore, all cops are, by definition, terrorists.
— Dane Whalen
If you are stuck in circumstances in which it takes Herculean efforts to get through the day— doing low-income work, obeying an authoritarian boss, buying clothes for the children, dealing with school issues, paying the rent or mortgage, fixing the car, negotiating with a spouse, paying taxes, and caring for older parents— it is not easy to pay close attention to larger political issues. Indeed you may wish that these issues would take care of themselves. It is not a huge jump from such a wish to become attracted to a public philosophy, spouted regularly at your job and on the media, that economic life would regulate itself automatically if only the state did not repeatedly intervene in it in clumsy ways. Now underfunded practices such as the license bureau, state welfare, public health insurance, public schools, public retirement plans, and the like begin to appear as awkward, bureaucratic organizations that could be replaced or eliminated if only the rational market were allowed to take care of things impersonally and quietly, as it were. Certainly such bureaucracies are indeed often clumsy. But more people are now attracted to compare that clumsiness to the myth of how an impersonal market would perform if it took on even more assignments and if state regulation of it were reduced even further. So a lot of “independents” and “moderates” may become predisposed to the myth of the rational market in part because the pressures of daily life encourage them to seek comfort in ideological formations that promise automatic rationality.
— William E. Connolly, The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism
Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it.
— Steven Magee
Although we cannot attain Jesus in his fullness unless at the same time we also take into account his unique relationship with God which has a special nature of its own, this does not of itself mean that Jesus' unique way of life is the only way to God. For even Jesus not only reveals God but also conceals him, since he appeared among us in non-godlike, creaturely humanity. As man he is a historical, contingent being who in no way can represent the full riches of God... unless one denies the reality of his real humanity (and that runs counter to the consensus of the church). So the gospel itself forbids us to speak of a Christian religious imperialism and exclusivism.
— Edward Schillebeeckx, Jesus In Our Western Culture: Mysticism, Ethics And Politics
What is Science Fiction? It is the absence of governance and political arrangements in worlds where advanced technology marches onwards. Petty politics and primal instincts continue to dominate while scientific advancement continues. This is our problem today as well: our brightest minds devote themselves to science but shun governance and politics. So as in each catastrophe conjured and contemplated in science fiction, we run the risk of cosmic destruction, lest our greatest minds turn to resolving the outstanding problems of politics and governance first.
— Usman W. Chohan
I am not a member of any political party, APC or PDP. I am a Democrat.
— Saminu Kanti
Nigeria has divided itself into PDP and APC.The PDP is to go on making mistakes while APC is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
— Saminu Kanti
A little stupid is like a little forest fire. If you happen upon some stupid, please stomp it out before it spreads.
— Quentin R. Bufogle, Horse Latitudes
Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free cou
— Salman Rushdie
It's political, sir. Apparently he wants a return to the values and traditions that made the city great, sir." "Does he _know_ what those values and traditions _were_?" said Vimes, aghast.
— Terry Pratchett
Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
— C.S. Lewis, Present Concerns
On the levels of politics and theology, beauty is perfectly compatible with nonsense and tyranny. Which is very fortunate; for if beauty were incompatible with non­sense and tyranny, there would be precious little art in the world. The masterpieces of painting, sculpture and architecture were produced as religious or political propaganda, for the greater glory of a god, a govern­ment or a priesthood. But most kings and priests have been despotic and all religions have been riddled with superstition. Genius has been the servant of tyranny and art has advertised the merits of the local cult. Time, as it passes, separates the good art from the bad meta­physics. Can we learn to make this separation, not after the event, but while it is actually taking place? That is the question.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it.
— Clifford Cohen
They did not think politics was a great constructive process, they thought it was a kind of dog-fight. They wanted fun, they wanted spice, they wanted hits, they wanted also a chance to say "'Ear, 'ear!" in an intelligent and honourable manner and clap their hands and drum with their feet. The great constructive process in history gives so little scope for clapping and drumming and saying "'Ear, 'ear!" One might as well think of hounding on the solar system.
— H.G. Wells
IT (The country) IS HEADED TOWARD OVERSIMPLIFICATION. YOU WANT TO SEE A PRESIDENT OF THE FUTURE? TURN ON ANY TELEVISION ON ANY SUNDAY MORNING - FIND ONE OF THOSE HOLY ROLLERS: THAT'S HIM, THAT'S THE NEW MISTER PRESIDENT! AND DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE FUTURE OF ALL THOSE KIDS WHO ARE GOING TO FALL IN THE CRACKS OF THIS GREAT, BIG, SLOPPY SOCIETY OF OURS? I JUST MET HIM; HE'S A TALL, SKINNY, FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY NAMED "DICK." HE'S PRETTY SCARY. WHAT'S WRONG WITH HIM IS NOT UNLIKE WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE TV EVANGELIST - OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT. WHAT'S WRONG WITH BOTH OF THEM IS THAT THEY'RE SO SURE THEY'RE RIGHT! THAT'S PRETTY SCARY - THE FUTURE, I THINK, IS PRETTY SCARY.
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
In the old days, a liberal and a conservative (a “dove” and a “hawk,” say) got their data from one of three nightly news programs, a local paper, and a handful of national magazines, and were thus starting with the same basic facts (even if those facts were questionable, limited, or erroneous). Now each of us constructs a custom informational universe, wittingly (we choose to go to the sources that uphold our existing beliefs and thus flatter us) or unwittingly (our app algorithms do the driving for us). The data we get this way, pre-imprinted with spin and mythos, are intensely one-dimensional.
— George Saunders
It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.
— Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
The premise that America’s power and influence was rooted in its wealth was wrong to begin with. To the contrary, our strength comes from America’s magical stuff. It is something intangible, something invulnerable, something no measure of evil, no amount of violence or bloodshed can destroy.
— Rick Elkin, Turn Right at Lost: Recalulating America
What worries me is that I am not sure any of the Republicans, or any Democrat, is ready to 'go to the mats.' And, ergo, I am concerned that our current leaders are simply incapable of creating a winning war strategy.
— Rick Elkin, Turn Right at Lost: Recalulating America
People think someone's going to come from outside and cure the problem. People think a messiah will come. No. They key to success is to strengthen what's local.
— Julián Leyzaola
The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent.
— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Sometimes the end is only a beginning
— Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary
Why do the powerful always insist on having a “back story” to justify whatever they do? Why can’t they—just once—do something for the simple reason that it is the right thing to do, in itself, for reasons understood and accepted by all? In politics, laws are passed to secretly serve hidden agendas, for without such agendas many lawmakers would never find the motivation to support anything at all.
— Clifford Cohen
In every era, humanity produces demonic individuals and seductive ideas of repression. The task of statesmanship is to prevent their rise to power and sustain an international order capable of deterring them if they do achieve it.
— Henry Kissinger
Money is not as good as power, but power is as good as money.
— Amit Kalantri
Power is not pleasure, power is pain.
— Amit Kalantri
There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the vague other-worldliness that often goes with genius.
— Boris Johnson
To impart a moral responsibility to exercise fairness in leadership builds greater leaders of strong character.
— Wayne Chirisa
Power is always personal: any study of a Western democratic leader today reveals that, even in a transparent system with its short periods in office, personalities shape administrations. Democratic leaders often rule through trusted retainers instead of official ministers. In any court, power is as fluid as human personality.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918
What the United States call democracy is actually a vertical model of remote governance by oligarchs—economic barons and their political representatives. The result is that citizens in the United States have little control over what the U.S. government does.
— S. Brian Willson
If the political left weren't so joyless, humorless, intrusive, taxing, over-taxing, anarchistic, controlling, rudderless, chaos-prone, pedantic, unrealistic, hypocritical, clueless, politically correct, angry, cruel, sanctimonious, retributive, redistributive, intolerant, and if the political left wasn't hell-bent on expansion of said unpleasantness into all aspects of my family's life the truth is: I would not be in your life. If the democratic party were run by Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh, if it had the slightest vestige of JFK and Henry "Scoop" Jackson I wouldn't be on the political map. If the American media were run by biased but not evil Tim Russert and David Brinkley types I wouldn't have joined the fight. You would not know who I am. The left made me do it, I swear, I am a reluctant cultural warrior.
— Andrew Breitbart
Oh for ’Shael’s sweet sake, girl, you think you can rule an empire without lying? You think your father didn’t lie? Or his father? Or any of your goldy-eyed great-great-founders of Annur? It’s built into the job. Bakers have flour, fishermen have nets, and leaders have lies.
— Brian Staveley, The Providence of Fire
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
— Thomas Jefferson
The two goals of liberation and social justice are not obviously compatible, any more than were the liberty and equality advocated at the French Revolution. If liberation involves the liberation of individual potential, how do we stop the ambitious, the energetic, the intelligent, the good-looking and the strong from getting ahead, and what should we allow ourselves by way of constraining them?
— Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
Very few politicians, who have chosen a political career, can fulfill the aspirations and survive the strains of an elevated office that in a monarchy was filled so randomly. Each tsar had to be simultaneously dictator and supreme general, high priest and Little Father. They required all the qualities listed by the sociologist Max Weber: the personal gift of grace, the virtue of legality, and "the authority of the eternal yesterday.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Cohesion is the bane of effective independence.
— Anthony Corlisatra
Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to diminish the majorities mediocrity.
— Anthony Corlisatra
There is an absolute power that truly empowers without corrupting
— Constance Friday
There was no whimsical ‘sip of wine at Thanksgiving’ for us kids while we were still teenagers. This was the Clinton era, and my parents were already worried about the moral deterioration of the country.
— Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.
— William Deresiewicz
When the evidence for and against "democracy being the finest system of government yet invented" is weighed, George W Bush is going to tip the scales very heavily against.
— Andre the BFG, Andre's Adventures in MySpace
As the second decade of the twenty-first century has worn on, politicians of all stripes, aware of the political power of the unmarried woman yet seemingly incapable of understanding female life outside of a marital context, have come to rely on a metaphor in which American women, no longer bound to men, are binding themselves to government.
— Rebecca Traister
Many comedians are very proud of themselves for saying the things others are supposedly afraid to say. They are at the forefront of this culture of entitlement where we get to do anything, think anything, and say anything.
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth
— George Orwell, 1984
Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Bad people often end up as heroes.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.
— Miriam Defensor Santiago, Stupid is Forever
In 1969 America put the man on the moon.In 2016 America put the man in the women's bathroom.
— Celso Cukierkorn
A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.
— Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
If there was one thing I had learned. . . it was that politics was a damn dirty business.
— Clint Hill, Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
— Patsy Asuncion
There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism
— Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.-	President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863
— Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
— Aristotle, Politics
Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state. A nose which varies from the ideal of straightness to a hook or snub may still be of good shape and agreeable to the eye; but if the excess be very great, all symmetry is lost, and the nose at last ceases to be a nose at all on account of some excess in one direction or defect in the other; and this is true of every other part of the human body. The same law of proportion equally holds in states. Oligarchy or democracy, although a departure from the most perfect form, may yet be a good enough government, but if any one attempts to push the principles of either to an extreme, he will begin by spoiling the government and end by having none at all. Wherefore the legislator and the statesman ought to know what democratical measures save and what destroy a democracy, and what oligarchical measures save or destroy an oligarchy. For neither the one nor the other can exist or continue to exist unless both rich and poor are included in it. If equality of property is introduced, the state must of necessity take another form; for when by laws carried to excess one or other element in the state is ruined, the constitution is ruined.
— Aristotle, Politics
The idea of parts of the body public fighting each other was like the idea of a man's punching himself in the face. It was a physical blasphemy that suited this era as an index of how far it had all gone.
— Paul Cornell, Rogues
But since the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, terrorists have killed many times that number of people in Pakistan. Tens of thousands have died here in terror and counterterror violence, slain by bombs, bullets, cannons, and drones. America's 9/11 has given way to Pakistan's 24/7/365. The battlefield has been displaced. And in Pakistan it is much more bloody.
— Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
In politics, looking at the big picture is the most convenient way to avoid getting bogged down in annoying little details, like the facts. That's why politicians always talk in generalities, such as "balancing the budget" or "obtaining justice under law" or "maintaining meaningful employment," when they really mean "massive spending cuts in programs advocated by my opens," or "creating a religious loophole for my largest contributor," or "keeping open a redundant and wasteful government facility in my district.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Competition is used for discrimination. Harmony makes everything perfect.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
If the truth is Impermissible, then we'll eventually be breaking all the rules.
— Aireen C. Pontillo
There is no one as intolerant as an open minded liberal.
— James Vaughn
As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
A prince ... is only the first servant of the state, who is obliged to act with probity and prudence. ... As the sovereign is properly the head of a family of citizens, the father of his people, he ought on all occasions to be the last refuge of the unfortunate.
— Frederick the Great
When she was pregnant with her second child, a midwife asked if Catherine had any unspoken fears about anything that could go wrong with the baby - such as genetic defects or complications during the birth. My sister said, 'My only fear is that he might grow up to become a Republican.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such demonic people, never use the same immoral methods, because to defeat a poisonous snake you don’t have to be a poisonous snake yourself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Politics unfortunately abounds in shams that must be treated reverentially for every politician who would succeed. If you are the sort of man whose stomach revolts against treating shams reverentially, you will be well advised to stay out of politics altogether and set up as a prophet; your prophecies may perhaps sow good seed for some future harvest. But as a politician you would be impotent. For at any given time the bulk of your countrymen believe firmly and devoutly, not only in various things that are worthy of belief, but also in illusions of one kind and another; and they will never submit to have their affairs managed for them by one who appears not to share in their credulity.
— F. S. Oliver
There used to be a canny politician in the Hyde Park area in Chicago in which I at one time lived for several years. His slogan was "I am for harmony if I have to use an axe." As "Secretary of Charm," if and when my merits and ambitions are recognized by my appointment to that office, I will take a page out of old "Doc" Jamieson's book. My motto will be "I will have charm, even if I have to use a club.
— Beatrice Fairfax, Ladies now and then
Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.
— Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now
The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.
— Stephen King, The Shining
Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
— Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds
There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.
— Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
Can I tell you one thing?” Melonhead says.I swallow. “Sure.”“One day isn’t your whole life, Murph.” He waits until I look at him. “A day is just a day.”I scoff and slouch in the chair. “So what are you saying? That people shouldn’t judge me on one mistake? Tell that to Judge Ororos.”He leans in against the table. “No, kid. I’m saying you shouldn’t judge yourself for it.
— Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost
Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.
— Nikki Rowe
An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...
— Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
My mother’s dress bears the stains of her life:blueberries, blood, bleach, and breast milk;She cradles in her arms a lifetime of love and sorrow;Its brilliance nearly blinds me.
— Brenda Sutton Rose
Sometimes my own darkness scares me.
— Heena Rathore P.
Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You are here, alive and awake and for whatever reasons you have fought your battles, it's time to start focusing on what strengths pulled you up when the entire world had knocked you down. That's where the virtue in self grows.
— Nikki Rowe
Be yourself because an original is always worth more than a copy.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. Nobody can control that. Nobody can control the environment, the economy, luck, or the moods of others. Compositions change. Positions change. Dispositions change. Experiences change. Opportunities and attitudes change. You will change.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Be soft, don't let the world make you hard. Be gentle, don't let the people make you difficult. Be kind, don't let the realities of life steal your sweetness and make you heartless.
— Nurudeen Ushawu
You should base everything on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears and feel with your own heart. Period. Always believe what you KNOW about a person, not what you HEAR.
— Tanya Masse
Because the parenting IS the most difficult job in the world! Our children need our Love, but also our support within this amazing matrix of choices. They need us to guide them towards Healthy Foods, Healthy Habits, Inspiring Activities, Life Enriching Friends, etc.’Conscious Parenting by Natasa Pantovic Nuit Quotes about kids body mind soul
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course for Parents
Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.
— Kemi Sogunle
Be busy with your free life.
— Amit Abraham
If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't complain if your're facing hard moments in life. Challenge yourself to face it, challenge yourself to beat it.
— Jayson Engay
Learn to accept things, learn to understand things that they're happening because it's for our own good. No matter what happen, just always remember that "If that thing didn't happen, I wouldn't be what I am now.
— Jayson Engay
The evenings are meant for deep reflection.
— Avijeet Das
Listen—I want to run all my life, screaming at the top of my lungs. Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don’t stop to think, don’t interrupt the scream, exhale, release life’s rapture. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying. Everything is screaming, choking on its screams. Laughter. Running. Let-down hair. That is all there is to life.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Your thoughts and emotions will dictate the kind of life you will have.
— Jayson Engay
The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.
— Kelly Moran, Idle Thursday
Don't expect a good life, just expect to be good in life." -Joseph Jiyun Yang
— -Joseph Jiyun Yang
I'm not a cynic. I am a realist.
— Sonya Watson
It's difficult to carry the weight of responsibilities. But, it's more difficult to carry the weight of expectations.
— Tarang Sinha
A great soul was always born from a great insistence.
— S.L. Tsao, The Early Delivery
Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully.
— Dan Brown, Origin
Be passionate bleed colors & words which waters both soul and body
— Rabisha
One who cannot swim must not blame the water.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be cheerful ten times as much as you complain. Communicate and listen more than you are silent with others. In other words, put on a happy face and be positive in your life. You only have one life to live.
— Phil Mitchell, A Bright New Morning: An American Story
I helped bring cheerfulness to a city, valued a long term local job, prepared for that disaster, was that extra dad, wrote songs of hopeful music, and searched for the truth but the most important thing was knowing you were not alone on the journey.
— Phil Mitchell, A Bright New Morning: An American Story
Many people will fight you, not because you are wrong, but because you are different.
— Nuruddin Ushawu
Watch the beauty of your life tree old leaves falling and allowing new ones to sprout !
— Joy Lima
No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Strive to be more than number one—strive to be the greatest number one.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We make our own luck. I believed that, too. We chose our own fate. We controlled our own future. I knew what I wanted. I needed to go get it.
— Kasie West, Lucky in Love
No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Keep calm and live
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
On a writer’s path there are always some level of pain and solitude, life and death, love and hate, longing and fullness of soul, romance and separation, contemplation and adventure. And each one of them is constantly walking side by side in my lifetime. Always reachable by a thought.
— Frederick Vanderbuilt
Worry about today, tomorrow will take care of itself.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
A fearless mind is fearless because, it cannot see anything different from it. Fear of superiority and power comes only when we begin to differentiate.
— Rajasaraswathii, A Diary to win
The universe is vast because, it has accepted everything. Every entity is supplement to the other.
— Rajasaraswathii, A Diary to win
Every day is precious as none of us knows when or where our journey will end.
— Ken Poirot
If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Gratitude for being alive is the best way to rise and shine.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Life should not be reduced to a to do list.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
When people smile at a rich man, they are smiling at his wallet.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The say money talks, but I've seen it sing, and even seen it dance.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life will sometimes, test your emotions.
— Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma
Life is like a magnet: success attracts and failure repels.
— Ken Poirot
I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.
— Ken Poirot
In spite of minor hassles, life was good.
— Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma
Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
People can hurt you, but you must still love. People can betray you, but you can still trust. People can put you down, but you must still rise. People can oppose you, but you can still prevail.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is full of ups and downs be brave to ride the crest of joy with gay abandon
— P. Dinakara Rao
The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Humor is a tool to ease the harsh realities of life.
— Ken Poirot
When you wrestle with life, your heart inevitably becomes a warrior; when you wrestle with death, your soul inevitably becomes a conqueror.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Passion is the best medicine that can heal your life
— Myra Yadav
Never compare yourself to others because you are unique and beautiful in your own ways.
— Joy P.
As seasons change, life changes!
— Lily Amis, Birdy & Fishy, Destination: Freedom
People keep asking astrologers for their destinies. Ironically, it is the people themselves who are the creators of their own destinies.
— Avijeet Das
We keep searching for things all our life, yet seldom do we notice them!
— Avijeet Das
The flames of our memories keep us alive!
— Avijeet Das
Life is too short.But there are alot of sorrows,
— Sher E Yazdan
Do not waste your life away by wishing for days you may not even get to see.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
The first professor you meet in life is your mother; the second is hardship, and the last is death.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There is neither a Heaven nor a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for existence, and Death is just another word for non-existence.
— Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories
Change is for a purpose not for a person
— Dr Karan M Pai
Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There is neither a Heaven for a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for existence, and Death is just another word for non-existence.
— Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories
Sometimes broken shoes and tattered clothes can tell us beautiful stories!
— Avijeet Das
The holes in my shoes and the holes in my jeans make me whole!
— Avijeet Das
No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When turbulence hits your sails remind yourself it is an opportunity to get to the shore quicker.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Beliefs are our foundation and our guiding compass, navigating us through life.
— Kim Ha Campbell, Inner Peace Outer Abundance
Prepare yourself well, so you don't have to regret anything .
— Hera Septyadita
I'm tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, or tell me where we're coming from or going to, or why. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other.
— John Coffey, The Green Mile
I have come to realize that a person’s relationship with their career is no different than their relationship with their spouse. You wake up together. You go to sleep together. You live together. It is possible to stay in a relationship that is based on convenience, financial security, or necessity, as opposed to genuine passion or love. But chances are that if the relationship is not built on genuine passion and love, it will have some difficulty at some point in time. Chances are it will fall apart at some point in time. And even if you manage to make it work, it just doesn’t feel good every day to wake up and go to sleep with someone or something you are simply not passionate about.The other thing I have come to realize is perhaps even more important. They say that people are afraid to fail. The proverbial “they”. I don’t know who “they” are, but they say it… People are afraid to fail. Or so it goes. But I disagree. People may think they are afraid to fail. But they are not afraid of failure per se. They are actually only afraid that other people will see that they have failed. They are afraid of what other will think of their failure. People will take incredible chances when there is no risk of others witnessing their failure. It’s why people dance and sing in the shower. It is the fear of what others will think of their failure that leads to constraints. Despair. Even suicide. In my career, I have seen multiple friends and clients give up, I am certain, out of a perceived shame of what they must have thought others were thinking of their failures... But it is an objective, outright, and utterly useless hindrance. A hindrance to success. There is nothing constructive about it. It is a reflex to overcome.... Flukes aside, success requires total dedication.
— VIVAFREI
If every man could eat, thinking about another man, life would have been much easier.
— Nurudeen Ushawu
One fish in your net is better than a thousand in the ocean.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
you know what is stupidity? underestimating self
— litymunshi
absolute equality not possible . what is possible ,we can honour the qualities in each person .that would reduce this gap
— litymunshi
We danced with the devil with demons in our heart.
— J. Limbu
Enjoy the journey
—  the destination may not be as exciting.
Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line. Acknowledging them does not mean you are admitting to doing something to contribute to someone's else oppression. It means that you recognize that some part of your identity puts you in a better position than others.
— Luvvie Ajayi
Beautiful gifts sometimes come wrapped in ugly paper.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The solution is in the problem
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian