Quotes on Politics

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.

We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the politics, then we'll fix the rest.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black 'Democrat,' a black 'Republican,' a black 'Conservative,' or a black 'Liberal' ...when a ten-million black vote bloc could be the deciding balance of power in American politics, because the white man's vote is almost always evenly divided.