#politics

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. ↗

— Robert F. Kennedy

#politics #inspirational

Voting is a civic sacrament. ↗

— Theodore Hesburgh

#civic #sacrament #voting

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#politics #love

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and band, the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#men

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#many #much #politics #racing #things

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

#politics #the-world #thinkers #political-philosophy

Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#politics #faith

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#change #form #politics #revolution

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#conservative #distinguished #enamored #evils #existing

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#duty #family #father #first #involved