Vladimir Lenin Quotes

The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

Not parties, but principles.

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church …

In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

My faith guides my life.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic. He is on the average more of a believer and a defender of the faith in humanity than the rest of the Occidentals. It is a relatively important matter to him to be true to his own ideals and to carry them out in actual life.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

I try to act out of faith.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.