Quotes on Politics

Whenever a politician makes a move, people go into a frenzy trying to decode the real motive. Analysts try to 'read' the situation, foreign media manipulate the story, and people react without full information. A politician has to tread carefully and escape these political land mines. Present situation in Pakistan forced me to bring these quotes to the readers.

1. Politics is the art of the possible. Otto Von Bismarck
2. In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte
3. Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. Dalton Camp
4. A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. Texas Guinan
5. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Tse-Tung
6. In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. Charles de Gaulle
7. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop
8. The political machine triumphs because it is united minority acting against a divided majority. Will Durant
9. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. Nikita Krushchev
10. Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle
11. Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right. H. L. Mencken

Quotes on Slavery

United Nations has declared today i.e. 2rd August 2014 as International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition. I thought I must bring some Famous Quotes on Slavery for folks to remind that FREEDOM is essence of LIFE so enjoy it fully and pray for freedom of those who are still slaves in 21st Century. 

1. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
2. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
3. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
4. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
5. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
6. The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.
7. Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
8. Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
9. The history of the slave trade tells not only of the suffering endured but also of the ultimately victorious struggle for freedom and human rights
10. To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.
11. As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. 

Quotes for Pakistanies

1. Life isn't a promise; it's a present
2. Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean.
3. A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.
4. New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.
5. Never base your life decisions on advice from people who don't have to deal with the result.
6. Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively achieves the set goals.
7. Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
8. In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.
9. We stand for self-reliance. We depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people, who together form the nation.
10. You must thoroughly clear away all ideas among your colleagues of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.
11. The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow Islam and participate actively in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.

Quotable Sayings

1. Often those who aren’t the easiest to love are the ones who need it the most.
2. Dreams are not what you see in sleep. They are the things that do not let you sleep.
3. Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
4. Love is the supreme expression of life, it is the essence and ground of all creation.
5. You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future.
6. Spend some time in solitude; you will discover your limitations. Try to convert them into your strength.
7. People often say that motivation does not last. Well, neither does bathing – that's why we recommend it daily.
8. Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
9. If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
10. For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.
11. Even the most fundamental beliefs about reality are not true in themselves. Our thinking makes them true in our experience.

Humorous Quotes

1. Laugh at your problems, everybody else does.
2. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
3. I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
4. He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame.
5. The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
6. The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
7. If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of payments.
8. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
9. A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
10. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman
11. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.