Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

Benn, Tony

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson