#politic

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#courage #else #fear #i #leaders

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. ↗

— Karl Marx

#being #gregarious #human #human being #itself

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#audience #hope #how #i #i hope that

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics. ↗

— Theresa May

#commons #i #involved #lady #liked

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#revolution #respect

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#big deal #deal #i #me #over

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#i #i can #mistake #politicians #some

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#certainly #get #people #politicians #purpose

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. ↗