Sayings ( Page 2 of 13 )

Charles de Gaulle September 18, 2014 05:30

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant

Saul Bellow September 17, 2014 05:30

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of clichés the first prize.

Albert Einstein September 16, 2014 05:30

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Kin Hubbard September 15, 2014 05:30

We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.

Alexis de Tocqueville September 14, 2014 05:30

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Franklin D. Roosevelt September 13, 2014 05:30

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

Plato September 12, 2014 05:30

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers,…

Steve Wynn September 11, 2014 05:30

I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's…

Almeida Garrett September 10, 2014 05:30

Y yo pregunto a los economistas políticos, a los moralistas, si han calculado el número de individuos que es necesario condenar a la miseria, al trabajo desproporcionado, a la infancia desamparada, a la ignorancia crapulosa,…

George Washington September 09, 2014 05:30

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.…

George Orwell September 08, 2014 05:30

It was not desirable that the pitiless should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept…

Jim Wallis September 07, 2014 05:30

It just doesn’t make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies “out there” with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is “in here” with us—embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and…