Quotes on Political

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

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

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.