Motivational Quotes

Politics

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

- Bryce, James

Best Quotes about Politics

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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.

Marx, Karl

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy