Pastoral Resources

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.