Political Misconduct Quotes & Sayings

If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people. — Karl Marx

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon. — Jodi Picoult

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you. — D.H. Lawrence

An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny ... If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and ... may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration. — Clinton Rossiter

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. — Adam Smith

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on. — John Roberts

A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write. — Alice McDermott

If people of one's own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over. — Chanakya

With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born of subtlety and depth of perception, not complexity and perceived virtuosity. — John Paul Caponigro

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture. — Dev Patel

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done. — Sarah Dessen