Political Quotes

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the upper hand means a great deal to the world.

Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.

Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....

It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity.The human spirit then dies and the animal in us returns.

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.

The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other and to the world.

Anarchy is law and freedom without force.Despotism is law and force without freedom.Barbarism force without freedom and law.Republicanism is force with freedom and law.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

Politics is applesauce.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle

The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.

Life is politics, you do it or it does you

In politics what you see is not what you get

Power hungry=life loving

Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.

The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world

Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will sacrifice others himself to get it

Powerless=lifeless.

You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.