#politic

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#also #arrive #conclusions #how #i

Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#good-and-evil #morality #political-philosophy #political-science #religion

I got into politics when I was eight years old. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#got #i #into #old #politics

True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#philosophy #politics #art

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. ↗

— Irving Layton

#canada #elliott #last #leader #pierre

L’œuvre est une expression de ce qu'est l'homme, de ce qu'il sent, de ce en quoi il croit. Si elle se perpétue et si elle se développe, ce n'est pas tant à cause de l'homme qui l'a entreprise, mais parce que d'autres hommes pensent et sentent de la même façon. ↗

— Morris L.West

#politics #work #art

Why am I a socialist? Simple: Because I believe in freedom. ↗

— Michel Templet

#politics #socialism #freedom

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions. ↗

— Linda Lingle

#best #call #career #closest #concept

People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#clients #corporations #discipline #like #me

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#class #composed #composite #corporate #even