Quotes on Political

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.