Politics Quotes
We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.
International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.
Democracy today, especially in the English-speaking world, is a political system that specialises in positioning inadequate, unqualified and dubious types in leadership positions.
The many are more incorruptible than the few
..Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.
People say that your life flashes before your eyes before you die, but they’re wrong. It’s not your life that passes before you, it’s the regrets that do.
Man's most important achievement is not about standing up and start walking but, standing up to speak the truth.
They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.
Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what is the word for eaters of one another?""Capitalists, " said Anna.
If you can’t see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it’s just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly.
Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did.
Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.
Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.
Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.
The greatest fear of those who rule is not the opposition but not to be taken seriously.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.... I advice keep singing peacefully "GO NAWAZ GO
Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.
The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.
No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor.
Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... you will be happier and I will be satisfied.
He wants to focus on what he calls 'cultural issues.' That makes sense, because when you're going to rob people blind you don't want to have them focus their attention on economic issues.
At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.
I think the very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.”— The Duchess Gloriana XII
when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the gravestthreat to it.
Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an end in itself
Ideology follows the money.""Governments don't protect people, people protect governments.""To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.
Think about the change that the world experiences without the aid of the right people and those who love and appreciate the presence of nature.
A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.
Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it
The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.
I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.
It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.
We have fallen upon evil times and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their parents.
Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.
When things in the country are in the pits, start a war with somebody.
The only candidate I'd allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we're talking about foraging for squirrels, he's notoriously apolitical.
Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.
I don't do 'black music, ' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.
Ball tempering is common in Cricket. Rigging is common in Elections. Whats the big deal? — Najumi Sethi