Politics Quotes

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...

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear a...

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is...

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I ca...

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to b...

. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the peop...

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted ...

In addition, I had the greatest interest in anything connected with politics, but this did not seem ...

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's bo...

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the coun...

A statesman in these days has a difficult task. He has to pursue the policy he deems advantageous to...

I will only ask you to believe one thing. I have faith in myself. I believe that I am the man to gui...

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's...

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he mean...

Paul's greatest contribution to the progressive cause wasn't what he accomplished in the senate, alt...

You're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is ...

Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's ...

If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impo...

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through...

The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convin...

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness...

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were fe...

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that w...

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they ...

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; aft...

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care f...

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the...

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for y...

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary...

Don't let them tell us stories

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the p...

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of hum...

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important...

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how sma...

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued viole...

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, f...

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings...

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propagan...

On the levels of politics and theology, beauty is perfectly compatible with nonsense and tyranny. Wh...

It is imperative that we replace those who think they own this country, with those who built it.

There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are i...

Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating.....

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it...

If it were possible for any nation to fathom another people's bitter experience through a book, how ...

Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most...

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to...

Regulation of sexual behavioris the preferred route to wider socialcontrol.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Her...

An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealt...

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Her...

An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealt...

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

Now constipation was quite a different matter...It would be dreadful for the whole world to know abo...

Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and...

For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving ...

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid p...

The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in ...

In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.

The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In poli...

How singular," murmured Maximillian; "your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary ...

The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the ma...

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

One has to understand that equality ends up by infiltrating the world of politics as it does everywh...

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exe...

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetra...

Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluste...

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians ...

Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been...

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and pass...