Top 60 Politics Quotes


Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Bertrand Russell

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Anthony de Mello


There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Benjamin Disraeli

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Otto von Bismarck


I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Aristotle


Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

Emmanuel Macron

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Alexis de Tocqueville


He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw


Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Sarah Palin


Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Victor Pinchuk

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

Samuel Johnson

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

John Adams

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Politics have no relation to morals.

Niccolo Machiavelli


Politicians and diapers have one thing in common --- they both should be changed regularly and for the same reason!

Unknown

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Donald Trump


The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Thomas Sowell

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

Buckminster Fuller

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx


We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

Queen Victoria

One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Cal Thomas

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Abraham Lincoln



It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Joseph Stalin

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson


In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Winston Churchill

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

Rebecca Adamson

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

The first duty of a man is to think for himself.

José Martí


The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Theodore Roosevelt

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Bob Riley


There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Isaac Asimov


The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Fidel Castro

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoléon Bonaparte


It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

Paul Wellstone

Those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana


The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

Tacitus


The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr


I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Robert Kennedy


Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Ronald Reagan

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Winston Churchill



Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Milan Kundera

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

George Will

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

Barack Obama

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

Stephen Colbert

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

William E. Gladstone

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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