Politics Quotes
Politics Quote of the day
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.
If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…
The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.
the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development
I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.
One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.
Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.
Hillary has the brains of someone who was born yesterday and the body of someone who died last week.
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.
I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
