Politics Quotes
The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.
Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.
In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.
If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.
Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.
