Unpolitical Quotes & Sayings

If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere. — Jack Welch

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. — Margaret Mitchell

And yet Carter was spot-on when he told the American people, In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. . . . This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning.40 — James A. Roberts

Have been sufficient to establish its real character. Indeed, however — Edgar Allan Poe

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people. — Andrew Mellon

Music in the church ought to be much more than an emotional stimulant. In fact, this means music and preaching should have the same aim. Both properly pertain to the proclamation of God's Word. Preaching is properly seen as an aspect of or worship. And conversely, music is properly seen as an aspect of the ministry of the Word, just like preaching. Therefore the songwriter ought to be skilled in Scripture and as concerned for theological precision as the preacher. Even more so, because the songs he writes are likely to be sung again and again (unlike a sermon that is preached only once). — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality. — Jean Stafford

For the tenth time, I wonder if I made a mistake escaping the castle. — Kassandra Lynn

Reading our Bible is actually fundamental, but there is more if we are going to walk in His truth. Even if we read the Bible, if we do not read it by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, we will not understand it correctly. — Rick Joyner

The particular threat to
the intellectual today, whether in the West or the nonWestern
world, is not the academy, nor the suburbs, nor the appalling commercialism of journalism and publishing
houses, but rather an attitude that I will call professionalism.
By professionalism I mean thinking of your work
as an intellectual as something you do for a living, between
the hours of nine and five with one eye on the clock, and
another cocked at what is considered to be proper, professional
behavior-not rocking the boat, not straying outside
the accepted paradigms or limits, making yourself marketable
and above all presentable, hence uncontroversial
and unpolitical and "objective. — Edward Said

I'm living everyday like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle. — The Notorious B.I.G.

Mistakes are proof that you're trying — Unknown

Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless. — Todd Akin

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group. — Bertolt Brecht

This saintly anarchist, who aroused the people of the abyss, the outcasts and "sinners," the Chandala of Judaism, to rise in revolt against the established order of things - and in language which, if the Gospels are to be credited, would get him sent to Siberia today - this man was certainly a political criminal, at least in so far as it was possible to be one in so absurdly unpolitical a community. This is what brought him to the cross: the proof thereof is to be found in the inscription that was put upon the cross. He died for his own sins - there is not the slightest ground for believing, no matter how often it is asserted, that he died for the sins of others. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Our relationship with God flows out of our love for God. — Christine Caine