100+ Modern Politics Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1701, Open Road Media

topic: Struggle, Men, Modern, Modern Politics

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

- Tony Blair

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Abuse, Argument, Modern, Modern Politics

One of the things that really has gone wrong in modern politics, one of the things that made Trump possible was that many people have a view of politics as something dramatic and exciting and thrilling and emotional.

- David Frum

source: Source: www.cbc.ca

topic: Emotional, Views, People, Modern Politics

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

- Jane Campion

topic: Thinking, Political, Modern, Modern Politics

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Majority, Illusion, Modern, Modern Politics

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

- Alasdair MacIntyre

source: Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.295, A&C Black

topic: Rejection, Systematic, Conservative, Modern Politics

There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.

- Stephen Mansfield

topic: Religious, Leader, Noble, Schizophrenic, Religious Faith

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Differences, Honest, Modern, Modern Politics, Personal Attacks

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

- Emmeline Pankhurst

source: Quoted in George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (1936)

topic: Women, Broken, Politics, Modern Politics, Window Panes

Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the central concern of modern politics. Public judgment, in the words of Benjamin Barber, is a function of commonality that can be exercised only by citizens interacting with one another in the context of mutual deliberation and decision.

- Kevin Mattson

source: Kevin Mattson (1994). “Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era”, p.4, Penn State Press

topic: Thinking, Decision, Political, Modern Politics, Commonality

I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.

- Pankaj Mishra

topic: Religious, Antiques, Superstitions, Modern Politics, Nehru

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

- Charlie Pierce

topic: Modern Politics

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

- Walter F. Mondale

topic: Political, Today, Mastery, Modern Politics, Politics Today

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

- Matthew Arnold