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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Quotes on Politics

1

Hot heads & cold hearts never solved anything

-Billy Graham

2

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

-Mahatma Gandhi

3

It is said that ‘power corrupts’, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible

-David Brin

4

All weakness tends to corrupt & impotence corrupts absolutely.

- Edgar z Freidenberg

5

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

- Milton Friedman

6

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state, an intolerable one.

- Thomas Paine

7

Democracy means having the choice. Dictatorship means being given the choice.

- Jeannine Luczak

8

The most serious threat to democracy is the notion that it has already been achieved.

- Anonymous

9

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty & happiness of the people whose manners are universally corrupt.

- Samuel Adams.

10

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.

- Tom Stoppard

11

Good example & education are the only weapons against narrow-mindedness be it communalism, casteism or partyism.

- C. Rajagopalchari

12

One can always win a war; but how does one conquer peace ?

- Michael Holmboe Meyer

13

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

- Max Lucade

14

If it’s natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how ?

- Joan Baez

15

We have guided missiles & misguided men.

- Martin Luther King Jr

16

Ring a ring of Uranium, Pocket full of Plutonium, Fission, we all fall down.

- Nuclear nursery rhyme

17

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

- Charles de Gaulle

18

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people of other than your own come first

- Charles de Gaulle

19

Peace is not something you wish for, it’s something you make, something you are, something you give away.

- Robert Fulghum

20

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

21

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

1 comment:

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