#politics

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#politics #courage

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#integrity #politics #art

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down. ↗

— Joe Biden

#art

In many ways politics follows culture. As ancient Greek musician Damon of Athens said, ‘Show me the lyric of a nation and it matters not who writes its laws.’ Movies, television, books, magazines, the Internet, and music are incredibly significant in shaping world views and lifestyles of today's America. And Christians are expressing a growing awareness and response to these avenues of influence. Where is God calling you to serve him – media, arts and entertainment, politics, education, church, business, science? ↗

— David Kinnaman

#politics #art

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth. Tolerance applies to the erring, intolerance to the error … Architects are as intolerant about sand as foundations for skyscrapers as doctors are intolerant about germs in the laboratory. Tolerance does not apply to truth or principles. About these things we must be intolerant, and for this kind of intolerance, so much needed to rouse us from sentimental gush, I make a plea. Intolerance of this kind is the foundation of all stability. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#politics #tolerance #anger

I once saw a snake having sex with a vulture, and I thought, It’s just business as usual in Washington DC.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #filth #normal #politicians #politics

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#politics #business

1983: To my generation has now come the challenge. In the days to come we will be tested on whether we have the moral courage, the realism, the idealism, the tenacity, and the ability to sacrifice some of the current comfort to invest in the future... I believe that this generation will rise to the challenge... The experts believe that, like the Democratic Party itself, the less than forty-year-old voters are prepared to sell their souls for some security, real or illusory. They have misjudged us. Just because our political heroes were murdered does not mean that the dream does not still live, buried deep in our broken hearts. ↗

— Joe Biden

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I am a politician, which means I am a cheat, and a liar. When I am not busy kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops. ↗

— Red October

#polticians #red-october #business

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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