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

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Paul Valery

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

Kennedy, Joseph

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

10.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

11.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

12.

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

14.

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

15.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

16.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

17.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

18.

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

19.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

21.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

22.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

23.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

24.

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

25.

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

Bagehot, Walter

26.

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

Barres

27.

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.

28.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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.

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Fischer, John

32.

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

33.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

34.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

35.

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

Benn, Tony

36.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

38.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

39.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

40.

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

41.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

42.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

45.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

46.

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

47.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

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

Huxley, Aldous

49.

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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John