Ravi Zacharias Quotes

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

I think America has always been polarized.

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

The political is the moral and the moral is the political.

This is the first war we fought in terms of our values, not for our interests.

You can’t set aside … values in the name of political expediency.

Not parties, but principles.

The attempt to turn a complex problem of the head into a simple moral question for the heart to answer, is of course a necessary part of all political discussion.

[Explaining his anti-abortion stance:] When you're functioning out of conviction, you can't think of politics.

Choose the politics of principle over the politics of personality.

With the Evangelical Right, compromise is not possible on the issues of conflict. In former times of clashes with courts compromise has taken place.

We don't take over the means of those whom we abhor.

Scholars know that the processes of politics normally involve exaggeration, myth making and fierce animosities.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

We've become so polarized we've become paralyzed.

I don't want to engage in politics; it's too hot.

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

I understand that, for some, everything is political.