Politics Quotes

Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.

We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.

If you dare to lose, you will dare to win.

It’s true that journalism in reality is not the journalism that we learnt in the university. It is far from it.

I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics.

Social change doesn’t happen overnight: It takes decades for momentum to build and for the once-radical edge to become mainstream.

To recognize and comprehend what influences us and others is to function with purpose.

Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.

Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.

... On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you...

Successful politicians are people who know how to make us think well of them without our realizing that that’s what they’re doing

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can’t bother about where they’re going.

I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?

Politicians are crooks!

I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.

Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.

Donald Trump is nuts, his party is chock full of nuts too, and that is bad news for Americans with a nut allergy.

Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

Politicians are the sole cause of our incurable social eczema

Do you know the one about how politics is show business for the ugly? State politics is show business for ugly people who can't remember their lines.

The problem with all politicians is that they are human.

People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent

A politician has an axe to grindWith which he aims to chop off half your mind.

If you despise your people, you will disregard them.If you hate your people, you will harm them.If you esteem your people, you will serve them.If you love your people, you will even die for them.

Just because you talk about it or advocate for one position doesn't mean you care more. Just because someone doesn't talk about it and advocates a different position doesn't mean they care less.

I've spent a lifetime in challenge. There's no way in which you can create any meaningful change unless you do that.

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.

Ponzi schemes don’t trickle down, they siphon up.

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

There’s nothing like a friendly handshake to establish social cooperation, but the bonobo handshake takes erotic politics to a whole new level.

We have passed some of the dirtiest chapters of mankind. Perhaps we are heading towards further inhuman treatments in many places such as Syria and Palestine.

We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia

If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys.

The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .

An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.

We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.

Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.

Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.

A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.