Quotes of Politically - somelinesforyou

“ Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy. ”

- Rita Mae Brown

“ What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it. ”

- Noam Chomsky

“ I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ”

- Davy Crockett

“ I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge. ”

- Robert Morgenthau

“ Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. ”

- Gary North

“ Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded. ”

- Bill O’Reilly

“ Becoming a person of deeply grounded and rich imagination may be more desirable than being healthy, politically savvy, or well informed. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. ”

- William E. Gladstone

“ It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. ”

- Robert D. Kaplan

“ We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. ”

- Dennis Miller

“ The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

“ Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry. ”

- Charles Osgood

“ There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. ”

- Thomas Mann

“ In general, I tend to favor teachers over school boards in conflicts. Not that teachers are always right but school boards are often used by the politically ambitious as a step up the ladder. The politically ambitious rarely become kindergarten teachers. ”

- Jon Carroll

“ I am not interested in petty gossip; I am not interested in who sells the most records and the politicizing of economics that makes that possible. I am not interested in a body politic of the largely uninformed who attempt to politically designate certain people as deserving of wider recognition. ”

- Bill Dixon

“ When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned. ”

- Italo Calvino

“ My father was kind of a local pillar of the community, a high-school teacher and football coach. He was always very politically knowledgeable because he was a social studies teacher. But in terms of his activism, it was more social and charitable in nature, rather than political. ”

- William Baldwin

“ While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful. ”

- Conrad Black

“ I think politically it is the bankrupcy of the politics of identity and the showing that we have to think coalitionally to get things done. That it doesn't matter with whom we sleep with. The queer movement was anti institutional with a critique to normalization: that you don't have to get normal to become legitimate. ”

- Judith Butler

“ What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people… then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority. ”

- Robert J. Ringer

“ A large part of the people in Hollywood are sheep - and I don't say that unkindly, I say that politically - if Spielberg and Streisand and Geffen and the others were Republicans tomorrow, you would see a shortage of paper to try and change registrations. ”

- Jerry Doyle

“ Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ”

- Susan Griffin

“ There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. ”

- Edward Kennedy

“ I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians. ”

- Aung San Suu Kyi

“ All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. ”

- Peggy Noonan

“ Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them. ”

- Roland Barthes

“ I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically. ”

- Naomi Wolf

“ Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular — not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately… ”

- Walter Lippmann
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