Quotes for All
It seems to me there’s this tyranny that’s not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they’re not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues. Eve Ensler
Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as ‘controversial, ‘extremist’, ‘explosive’, ‘disgraceful’, and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing … Read more
There is no private domain of a person’s life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal. Charlotte Bunch
My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country. Charles Tupper
We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation. Bob Hawke
The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now I think it’s up to all sorts of people who really care about these things to continue on this new ground to try and make this the central political issue it needs to … Read more
The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts. Bill Maher
I learn to be kind of balanced, because when I was a teenager and in my early 20s, I would get very involved with political issues and stuff like that. And now, I still have an opinion on everything, but I try to balance staying informed and having a positive attitude. Bianca Balti
I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? “Jobs and Freedom.” What King understood is that you have to deal with the economic issues as well as the political issues and the civil rights issues. Bernie Sanders
In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody — from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung — can say with any confidence that he is not … Read more