#politics

In politics nothing is contemptible. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#contemptible #nothing

There is no gambling like politics. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#like #politics

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#been #done #egos #even #every

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. ↗

— Aberjhani

#election-year-politics #hate-crimes #hatred #humanity #hypocrisy

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. ↗

— Mike Norton

#buddha #buddha-nature #buddhism #capitalism #communism

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#also #discussed #hard #hard work #importance

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#among #backgrounds #common #contest #different

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy. ↗

— James Ellroy

#accent #been #eisenhower #everything #father

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#finished #going #governor #i #life

The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political is itself a political decision! ↗

— Richard King

#religion #attitude