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A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we’ve got to make them and not just say, ‘Oh they’re all the same.’ They are all the same in certain ways, alas – a political animal is such an animal.

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

Not that she’s a political animal, she’s just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she’s of the view that you don’t bring children into the world to have them shot.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

My father was not a political animal.

I’m not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I’m not sure if England is ever going to recover.

To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way – they have no choice: politics is one of the many fragments we thread into the tapestry of the poem.

If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don’t actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.