Politics Quotes

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Politics is applied biology.