Politics Quotes

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Fr...

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxist...

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of...

And Schyogolev launched on a discussion of politics. Like many unpaid windbags he thought that he co...

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in...

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled abo...

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually...

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and...

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know wh...

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquesti...

That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.

His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.

I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a...

Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his d...

You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to ...

If the U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, they cannot feign innoce...

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a defic...

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit ...

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re wi...

I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loud...

We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would...

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It ...

Eating is an agricultural act.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...

It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeg...

It is of the essence of any party to gain its orientation not from truths but from illusions which u...

It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you hav...

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history.

[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if t...

The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment....The causes and motiv...

Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,...

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing,you got to admit that each party is worse th...

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an elec...

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not on...

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Hol...

A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you ...

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the s...

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore the...

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discov...

A second marked characteristic of the Liberal in debate with the conservative is the tacit premise t...

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indige...

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

If true Christianity consists in carrying out in our daily lives the teachings of Christ, who will s...

Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vig...

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its di...

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about...

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,non-citizens face an executive that...

If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a p...

The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and right – I think the imp...

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I s...

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teach...

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the...

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of...

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude...

I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my ...

He had liked to listen to the exotic (to a Belsey) chatter of business and money and practical polit...

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try t...

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic...

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice ...

The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. Th...

Khrushchev, too, looks like the kind of man his physicians must continually try to diet, and histori...

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a...

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge t...

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds an...

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace ...

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers...

...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put s...

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of th...

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never h...