Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.
quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
quote by David Horowitz
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Children of Our Age
We are children of our age,
it's a political age.
All day long, all through the night,
all affairs--yours, ours, theirs--
are political affairs.
Whether you like it or not,
your genes have a political past,
your skin, a political cast,
your eyes, a political slant.
Whatever you say reverberates,
whatever you don't say speaks for itself.
So either way you're talking politics.
Even when you take to the woods,
you're taking political steps
on political grounds.
Apolitical poems are also political,
and above us shines a moon
no longer purely lunar.
To be or not to be, that is the question.
And though it troubles the digestion
it's a question, as always, of politics.
To acquire a political meaning
you don't even have to be human.
Raw material will do,
or protein feed, or crude oil,
or a conference table whose shape
was quarreled over for months;
Should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table or a square one?
Meanwhile, people perished,
animals died,
houses burned,
and the fields ran wild
just as in times immemorial
and less political.
poem by Wislawa Szymborska
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.
quote by Alcee Hastings
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Success | Wisdom Prose
Success should not be measured
by how much political or corporate influence you wield,
by how much money you earn,
by the material goods you possess,
or by how popular you are.
Success should be measured
by the level of positive influence you have over others for good,
by the levels of contentment and peacefulness you enjoy—
regardless of circumstances,
by the level of simplicity in your lifestyle,
and by whether or not you are a person of high moral character.
poem by Anna Maria
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Don’t be gullible
Whether religions take you to eternity or not,
The religious heads get it right here by you.
Whether governance takes you to prosperity or not,
The political leaders get it right now from you.
Whether courtship takes a lady to heaven or not,
The lover finds it right soon from her bone and flesh.
Unless you think, unless you reason to act,
You render yourself vulnerable and gullible.
07.05.2001, Pmdi
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
In the lexicon of the political class, the word ""sacrifice"" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
quote by George Will
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will in Newsweek (22 February 1993)
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
... in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will in Newsweek, 2/22/93
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.
quote by John Keegan
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
quote by Francis Parker Yockey
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Who is to judge?
Family Heads, are you right to judge?
Political Heads, are you wise to judge?
Religious Heads, are you just to judge?
Judicial Heads, are you true to judge?
Individuals, are you free to judge?
One is right to one’s act.
Each act ends with its fate
As each birth meets its death.
Which birth is not just?
Which act is not just?
Who are you and I to judge?
Time is supreme and beyond us.
08.06.2006
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
quote by Arianna Huffington
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.
quote by Jurgen Habermas
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Sooner Or Later We'll Be Dead
Sooner or later each one of us is obliged to die,
We may or may not have an opportunity to say, “Bye! ”
Because this is something that can’t be planned except in a few states,
Our politicians refuse to discuss these political debates.
You might think that for such a sure thing, it should all be well planned,
But our political leaders ensure we have our heads in the sand,
As we wait blindly for some horrible disease to kill us off,
In great pain, sorrow, disgust, disappointment and maybe cough.
If we lived in Switzerland, Holland or Oregon, we could plan,
To go out with dignity if you’re an old woman or old man,
I hope these words don’t haunt you sometime in your distant future,
As you lie there waiting to die or for your next suture.
Dec 7th,2010
poem by James Bredin
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Frozen Chicken
Frozen chicken,
Venturing,
Rationale,
Political,
Conforms,
Standards,
Quality,
Major,
Integrated;
Because your name was withheld!
But the constraint around today is like a political power;
And the innocence of your love is now noted by the elders of the town!
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands — if only instinctively — that anything which seems to suggest that God favors a political party or the establishment of a state church, is wrong and dangerous. Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions — or whole bodies of religious belief — and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and His rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets. The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
quote by Mario Cuomo
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
Unseeing Eyes
Why can't men with eyes see, the future ahead for you and me?
This country's near future at hand, within an ever darkening land,
In a land that avoids all light, supporting evil and wrong as right,
Being swayed by leaders who lie, a given fact, you cannot deny.
Is this why many souls today, are being led down a darker way?
Being led by the spiritually blind, while leaving all morals behind,
Blindly being taken down a path, that leads to judgment's wrath,
As they continue ignoring signs, following dark political designs.
Forgetting God, over this land, leaders now take a darker stand,
Defying The God, over this nation, ignoring His Holy Revelation,
Following ways of an amoral few, forgetting all most of us knew,
As they defy God ruling above, going to what they know little of.
Those following with unseeing eyes, will only see a total demise,
Of political plans and fabrication; hope and change, for a nation,
As with change darkness abounds, while hopelessness resounds,
While only darkness is wrought, by hope and change they sought.
Their eyes can see nothing friend, about Truth and upcoming end,
Of darkened leaders political bent, and Gods' righteous judgment,
But friend every eye shall see, the coming of The Lord of Eternity,
Ending all of those political lies, while all leaders see their demise.
(Copyright ©07/2012)
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
quote by Karl Von Clausewitz
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
quote by John George Nicolay
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Kabi
You are in love and i can see it in your eyes,
But man's governments are guided and ruled by various religions!
And to the political and religious leaders of the world,
I am Kabi with the muse of your sweet love.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!