Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for. —Jerry Rubin More about this quote Tags: politics life morality voting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a virtuous community, men of sense and of principle will always be placed at the head of affairs. In a declining state of public morals, men will be so blinded to their true interests as to put the incapable and unworthy at the helm. It is therefore vain to complain of the follies or crimes of a government. We must lay our hands on our own hearts and say, "Here is the sin that makes the public sin. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: sin morality government interests Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven. —Hindu saying More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning. —Brendan Gill More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Tags: truth salvation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip is what people want, not action. . . . The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented — and then do nothing. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I went to the store the other day to buy a bolt for our front door, for, as I told the storekeeper, the governor was coming here. "Aye," said he, "and the legislature too." "Then I will take two bolts," said I. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: evil devil scripture the bible Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When someone behaves like a beast, he says, "After all, one is only human." But when he is treated like a beast, he says, "After all, one is human. —Karl Kraus More about this quote Tags: error morality fallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: power character adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Tags: destruction morality psychology indignation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: politics imagination worry alarm menace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He had the misleading air of openhearted simplicity that people have come to demand of their politicians. —Rae Foley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: politics speech defense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are tied to each other. We can hate and love, miss and loathe each other all within the same breath. We can never want to see each other again while never wanting to let go. —Taylor Jenkins Reid in After I Do More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email