Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital? —Shirley Ann Grau More about this quote Tags: politics capital highways roads Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America: a country where everything is done to prove life isn't tragic. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: USA tragedy proof Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I look at the politics of this country as a game that is played on the people, this illusion of choice. It's interesting that the important things have been reduced in number: oil companies, communications, pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking, accounting, all these firms have been merged and reduced. The choices are very limited. But if you want a bagel, we've got twenty-six flavors. There are four hundred kinds of mustard in this country. These are the illusions of choice. I don't really think choice is here to any substantive degree. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: justice politics choice irony banking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: politics struggle snakes entrapment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: politics wisdom nations money capital Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. —Stanley Kubrick More about this quote Tags: politics nations international relations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen. —Hannah Arendt More about this quote Tags: politics language business imperialism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. —Lydia Maria Child More about this quote Tags: justice power rights dominance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. —Stewart Udall More about this quote Tags: fear power greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. —Eldridge Cleaver More about this quote Tags: love hate others people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. —Bette Davis More about this quote Tags: love marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don’t intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of your control. —Dana Reinhardt in Harmless More about this quote Tags: change control intentions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. —Marlene Dietrich More about this quote Tags: importance friendship friends Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer. —Evelle J. Younger More about this quote Tags: law competence delay lawyers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? —Charles M. Schulz More about this quote Tags: wonder life purpose meaning happiness goals direction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email