488 Quotes About Political-philosophy

O talijanskoj biskupskoj konferenciji:Ona se sada sve više povlači u političku neutralnost, a novi joj je cilj da kršćani u svim strankama ''transverzalno'', kako se to ovdje kaže, bez obzira na stranačku pripadnost, u bitnim etičkim pitanjima politike iskazuju jednako mišljenje, prema njihovoj zajedničkoj odgovornosti.

Africa has sit-tight problems because she has sit-tight leaders. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

It's the civil servants who run a country, not the politicians.

Intellectuals in good standing are apolitical — they canvas for development.

In the political/geopolitical news segment - one who pays someone to create content has a hidden agenda, and one who likes to get paid for the content creation has a vested interest.

We spend almost our entire lives arguing over who’s good and who’s bad. Who is greedy and who is just a bleeding heart. Who’s part of the problem and who’s part of the solution. But in the end, I’m not sure if it really matters, because death doesn’t care what your opinions are.

Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily observable human behaviors of pride, selfishness, greed, and the quest for glory.

Conservatives respect the wisdom of their ancestors...they are dubious of wholesale alteration. They think society is a spiritual reality, possessing an eternal life but a delicate constitution: it cannot be scrapped and recast as if it were a machine

Be not like a rotten branch easily broken but rather be one that is filled with strength.