Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Noonan, Peggy

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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Politics makes strange postmasters.