A Politics of Love Quotes

“A belief in separation is always at the root of a problem, and a realization of our oneness is always at the root of its solution.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Love not only makes a crisis endurable; it makes it transformable.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Making another person feel guilty will never build unity or goodwill; only blessing, not blaming, can do that. All judgment does is to shut people down emotionally and psychologically.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Our political challenges are mere symptoms of a deeper malaise and a deeper dysfunction. Humanity itself is being challenged to move on to the next stage of our evolution.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Any person, economic system, or political establishment that fails to concern itself with the pain of others is out of alignment with spiritual truth.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Political manifestations, both good and bad, are but outer reflections of internal realities.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“America’s higher purpose is not just to allow you to have what you want, or to allow me to have what I want. Our higher purpose is to give everyone a fair shot at making their dreams come true. Anything that stands in the way of that will ultimately deprive all of us of the opportunities we hold most dear. For America doesn’t belong to any one of us; America belongs to all of us.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“We don’t just need a progressive politics or a conservative politics; we need a more deeply human politics. We need a politics of love. Love is the angel of our better nature, just as fear is the demon of the lower self. And it is love, not fear, that has made us great. When politics is used for loveless purposes, love and love alone can override it. It was love that abolished slavery, it was love that gave women suffrage, it was love that established civil rights, and it is love that we need now.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“The work is always on ourselves.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“From a spiritual perspective, if someone is driving us crazy, then the deeper issue is still our own craziness.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“But murder is murder,” I exclaimed, “no matter who is doing it!”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“One of my new friends told me that he couldn’t join me in my concern because he “supports law enforcement.” At which point, I said it was insulting to suggest that those who have a problem with that shooting do not support law enforcement!”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Standing up to evil doesn’t mean we’re being “judgmental.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“We need to transform our political conversations, not suppress them.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“But in a spiritual sense, the pointed finger is the problem.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“If we’re morally responsible for monitoring our own souls, then we’re morally responsible, as well, for monitoring the soul of our nation.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Yet being with that dissonance is important; it is our soul work. The purpose of our lives is to close the gap between what could be and what too often is.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“The cognitive dissonance is painful.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Are our education and economic policies a prescription for economic growth for any but a few?”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“The biggest problem we have collectively is that our politics lag behind.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“A politics of love has as much to do with how we listen as with the things we say. Partly because I had shared with them an Easter service filled with prayer and meditation that morning, and partly because my friends are lovely people whom I genuinely like, I could hear them at lunch that day without reactivity. I felt no constriction in my heart, no negativity, no judgment. We were meeting in Rumi’s field “beyond good and bad, right and wrong,” which is the only place where souls can meet.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Some 120,000 girls were shipped into Minneapolis for last year’s Super Bowl, making it arguably the largest sex-trafficking event in the world.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Political manifestations, both good and bad, are but outer reflections of internal realities. They emerge from realms beyond what the eye can see.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“If you legitimize their self-centeredness, they’ll be more likely to forget about their ancestors, their fellow citizens, or their descendants.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Giving people a lot of consumer products but not giving them information is like giving people lots of candy but withholding basic nourishment.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“Underresourcing education, particularly among children, and corporate consolidation of the news media have been powerful tools in the dumbing”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“social fabric of our society as well as the natural environment on which all business, and indeed all life, depends.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“The idea that a corporation should bear no responsibility to anything other than the financial bottom line of its stockholders destroys the”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“It is the only power that can override hate.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“It’s like the dirty water that spurts out of a bathtub that hasn’t been used for a while; you just have to let it do its thing for a bit, and then clear water will begin to flow.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution