#politic

In politics nothing is contemptible. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#contemptible #nothing

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#democracy #into #politicians #statesmen #weary

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#independence #miracle #nationality #physical #political

There is no gambling like politics. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#like #politics

Politics is a contact sport. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#politics

I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church. ↗

— Margaret George

#religion #tudor #education

Things need shaking up politically, culturally. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#need #politically #shaking #things #up

Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people. ↗

— Larry Craig

#constitutional #courts #desecration #flag #issue

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that. ↗

— John Cusack

#correct #criticism #get #going #into

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. ↗

— John Cusack

#core #death #extreme #fascism #kitsch