Politics Quotes

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books...

One would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. ...

Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have recei...

When she was pregnant with her second child, a midwife asked if Catherine had any unspoken fears abo...

DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good ...

I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the tr...

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms...

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions...

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to ...

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it...

Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human na...

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket...

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise ...

A further reason for my hatred of . . . ideologies is quite a primitive one. I have an aversion to k...

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no ch...

What’s going on outside, Ravic?” “Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide...

Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the...

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's...

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the ...

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be...

He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's importa...

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and ...

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while t...

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad get even.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reforme...

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for ...

The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they ha...

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political...

Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual...

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealis...

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of v...

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social v...

I’m not attached to anything.I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.I think that ...

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither pris...

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, h...

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You co...

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate...

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not tha...

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their wa...

Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene...

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence...

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have becom...

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and...

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue gove...

Bisexuals are really attracted to senior Lib Dems - as they are both a man and a great big pussy.

Immediately after his re-election [Cameron] announced: “For too long we have been a passively tolera...

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could...

I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled cons...

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants a...

Presidents are selected, not elected.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk for...

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent o...

War is young men dying and old men talking

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a p...

A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfe...

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of ...

Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that han...

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protect...

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that ...

The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, pr...

Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the othe...

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

In this becalmed zone the sea has a smooth surface, the palm-tree stirs gently in the breeze, the wa...

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and ...

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than a...

It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its...

Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

A thinking man never be a party man.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking ...

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion...

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, whe...

When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the s...

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

We need not be surprised at this. On a wrong road, inconsistency is inevitable; if it were not so, m...

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spi...

There is in all of us a strong disposition to regard what is lawful as legitimate, so much so that m...

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift fr...

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from sho...

In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were...

Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed...