Political Pgilosophy Quotes & Sayings

He saw now that [compassion] was the very first necessity, always and everywhere, and should flow between all men, always and everywhere. Men lived with their nearest and dearest and knew little of them, and strangers passing by in the street were as impersonal as trees walking, and all the while there was this deep affinity, for all men suffered. — Elizabeth Goudge

It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves. — John Lancaster Spalding

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. — Anonymous

To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of the throne, and the mitre in the name of the attar; it is to ill-treat the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. — Victor Hugo

I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did. — Tom Sizemore

Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

...there are times when silence is a poem. — John Fowles

Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time. — Mario Andretti

All of this is mystification. The city itself lives on its own myth. Instead of waking up and silently existing, the city people prefer a stubborn and fabricated dream; they do not care to be a part of the night, or to be merely of the world. They have constructed a world outside the world, against the world, a world of mechanical fictions which contemn nature and seek only to use it up, thus preventing it from renewing itself and man. — Thomas Merton

Ready for the countdown,' shouted Winifred.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Lift off !
And the sleigh budged. Quite a bit. — Margaret Harcourt West

If your vision doesn't compel, move or stir people, your vision is too small. — Craig Groeschel

It does not matter how old you are. Recognize your calling and begin to work toward its fulfillment — Sunday Adelaja

I Survived the Black Plague — Cynthia Hand

What was meaningful? What was meaningless? What did it mean, to amount to something? What type of life, was worth living? Was it better, to make a ton of money, and have a fucking goddamn Mercedes, or whatever the fuck kind of car it was, to be a lawyer with a 'serious' job, and to have 'amounted to something,' or was it better to just be a waiter, and work the evening shift, and have your days free to goof off with your roommates, your friends, to go to meditation, to take some time to reflect, and enjoy life, and to not always be in such a big goddamn rush to get somewhere? — T. Scott McLeod

Even potted plants got to be a responsibility, like everything else you took care of that couldn't make decisions for itself. — Tove Jansson