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You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
View quotes by Pope John Paul II

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

View quotes by Wallace Stevens

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.
View quotes by Dick Thornburgh

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
View quotes by Kahlil Gibran

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
View quotes by Lyndon Johnson

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
View quotes by Lewis Mumford

We've watched for weeks some of the young inexperienced team that Gordon Brown has got around him pumped up with political testosterone, running around game-playing with the Tories on whether an election will be called or not.
View quotes by John McDonnell

Yet behind that extraordinary front presented to the world was one of the shrewdest political minds I ever encountered. She was a natural politician, could read a situation and analyse and assess it as fast as anyone [Mo Mowlam]
View quotes by Tony Blair

We have the best political system yet devised for man. But we have to make it responsive to the people, make it work as planned.
View quotes by Bill Goldberg

There was never really a case for an election. There was no great demand from the public. There was no need for it. [what political system is he commenting on? Not the one the public are clearly!]
View quotes by Anthony Howard

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
View quotes by Karl Von Clausewitz

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

View quotes by Emma Goldman

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism
View quotes by P D James

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
View quotes by Jimmy Carter

A sporting system is the by-product of society and its political system, and it is just boyhood dreaming to suppose you can ever take politics out of sport.
View quotes by Peter Hain

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
View quotes by Margaret Thatcher

How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.
View quotes by Barbra Streisand

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
View quotes by Edith Wharton

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
View quotes by Indira Gandhi

'The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.'
View quotes by Angela Davis

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