Political Quotes

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

It takes truth, and it takes speaking truth to power, but because the stranglehold is so tight it seems to take something else - a real political threat.