Quotes on Political

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

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

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.