World Politics Quotes:

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

- John Quincy Adams

source: "American Prohibition Year Book, Volumes 10-12" (p. 111), 1910.

topic: Patriotic, Reflection, Presidential, Inspirational Presidential, Inspirational Voting

The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Mean, Political, Growth, Social Democracy, Australia Day

The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.

- Alex Carey

source: Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.18, University of Illinois Press

topic: Wisdom, Political, Growth, Australia Day, 20th Century

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

- Jack Layton

source: Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Hope, Optimism And Hope, World Politics

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: "The New Freedom : A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People" by Woodrow Wilson, (p. 13), 1913.

topic: Fear, Men, Views, Power And Control, State Government

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

topic: Struggle, World, Fundamentals, World Politics

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

- Paul Wellstone

source: "Honoring Paul Wellstone's Legacy: Fighting Like Hell for Health Care Reform" by Mike Elk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.

topic: Winning, People, Sake, World Politics, Power Politics

The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course, politics affects economic processes, this is obvious, but if we bring some squabbles, or not squabbles, rather, some matters that are really important but relate purely to world politics, we will overload the G20 agenda and instead of addressing such issues as finance, structural economic reforms, tax evasion and so forth, we will engage in endless debates concerning the Syrian crisis or some other global challenges, of which there are many, or the Middle East problem.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: thesaker.is

topic: Issues, Challenges, Important, Squabbles, World Politics

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

- David Remnick

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: World, Trends, Want, World Politics

You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist populist [Donald Trump] who is now in the White House with an authoritarian strongman who has no regard for facts, no regard for tradition, and no regard for the Constitution. That is what you get when you import third world conditions. You get third world politics, and that's where we are now.

- Van Jones

source: Source: pen.org

topic: White, House, World, World Politics, Primaries

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

- Talib Kweli

topic: World, Roles, Affair, World Politics, Foreign Affairs

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Responsibility, America, World, Humane Society, World Politics

There are no friends at cards or world politics

- Finley Peter Dunne

topic: No Friends, Cards, World, World Politics

I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.

- David Low

topic: War, Silly, Games, Bluffs, World Politics

Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Religious, Real, People, Imaginary Friend, World Politics

Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished.

- John Mayer

source: Esquire Magazine, in the column "The Resident Rock Star: JOHN MAYER", July 1, 2004.

topic: Hands, Talking, Understanding, World Politics

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

- Temple Grandin

topic: Real, People, World, World Politics

Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.

- Wyndham Lewis

source: 1937 Blasting and Bombardiering, pt.5,'Toward an Art-Less Society'.

topic: Art, War, World, World Politics

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Wish, World, Realizing, World Politics, American Politics

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.

- Lee H. Hamilton

source: "The Commissioners". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 8, 2004.

topic: Thinking, Impact, Government, Discreet, World Politics

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

- David Amram

topic: Writing, Literature, World, World Politics, Classic Literature

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

- Ethan Zuckerman

topic: School, Diversity, Church, Reddit, World Politics

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

- Elliott Abrams

topic: World, Crossroads, Bloody, World Politics