Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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

Will, George F.

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

Certeau, Michel De

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

10.

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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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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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

30.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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 mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

33.

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

Plato

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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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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

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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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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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

46.

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Coolidge, Calvin