Politics Quotes
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.
Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.
That’s what happens when you crowd enough folks into the same sandbox: eventually they’re gonna start throwing a fit over who gets what part to play with.
Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.
Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.
It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants.
It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)
Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty.
Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.
Reform as such is inherently reactionary and perpetuates psychological dependence onthe enemy, while confusingthe true class contradictionsbetween ourselves and the enemy.
All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.
It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers.
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
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When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: 'Does the candidate get paid?
You know your vote doesn't count, but you go through the motions, because it's been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.
When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.
Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy
In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do.
Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself.
The U.K. should begin with an FAnd have a C after the U, And it should end in E DNow that we’ve left the E.U.
The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult to attain later.
Truth can only be found in a person's record of actions, not their list of intentions.
In politics, it often pays to be ahead of the curve. That holds true for corporate governance too, even more so when politics enter the equation.
It's time, more than ever, to shrug off apathy. For Socialism not to be a dirty word any more. This is a time for heroes.
The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust.
When we were kids and believed that the game was not fair, we stopped playing. Well, the game of governance is not fair, so we need to stop playing along.
The good thing about democracy is that every vote counts. The problem with democracy is that every vote counts.
Even the purest of souls get ravished and consumed by the most thirsty quintessential desire to possess power.
In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest - without asking to be paid.
Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.
In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.
Like Hitler, the President used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking and presented journalism as a campaign against himself.
You're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is supposed to be for everyone. And that's why I'm a Democrat.
If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse.
They that milk the cow everyday without feeding it well must never complain about how it keeps growing lean
Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.
...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what’s going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.
BREXIT?So mental a political tap dance, that it makes riding a porcupine bareback over a cliff seem the only sane thing to do.
Trust a politician? I would rather staple gun my nuts to the back of a charging rhino.
Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.