Quotes on Politics

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

The world is governed by opinion.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

Aping urbanity, _x000D_ Oozing with vanity, _x000D_ Plump as a manatee, _x000D_ Faking humanity, _x000D_ Intellectual inanity, _x000D_ Journalistic calamity, _x000D_ Fox Noise insanity, _x000D_ You're a profanity, _x000D_ Hannity.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

What we've seen is an attempt by mainstream politics and politicians to co-opt movements that galvanize people in order for them to move closer to their own goals and objectives. We don't think that playing a corrupt game is going to bring change and make black lives matter.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience.

We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Politics is a matter of day-to-day improvisation, and it often seems as though the major parties are guided only by the desire to stay in office and not by any philosophy that might justify their doing so.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.