Quotes on Political

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.