#politics

Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. And the time has now arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and to help them get that protection. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#politics #economics

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. ↗

— Mark Twain

#mark-twain #politics #twain #worship

...we must also recognize that people who have diametrically opposing views may believe *they too* are advancing the kingdom, which is all well and good so long as we don't christen our views as *the* Christian view. As people whose citizenship is in heaven before it is in any nation (Phil 3:20), and whose kingdom identity is rooted in Jesus rather than in a political agenda, we must never forget that the only way we individually and collectively represent the kingdom of God is through loving, Christlike, sacrificial acts of service to others. Anything and everything else, however good and noble, lies outside the kingdom of God. ↗

— Gregory A. Boyd

#politics #faith

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#cannot #deeply #each #hands #inserted

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals. ↗

— Julian Bond

#line #politics #theatricals #thin

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects. ↗

— Ian Botham

#done #ensure #feel #get #here

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. ↗

— Mark Udall

#creativity #emotionally #fatal #get #helps

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#i #mate #politics #share #soul

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment. ↗

— Tina Brown

#been #book #done #going #i

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#begin #else #grandiose #man #politics