The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. β Edward Abbey
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. β Franklin D. Roosevelt
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal. β Thomas Sankara
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. β Antonin Scalia
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security. β Benjamin Franklin
You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness. β Vladimir Putin
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. β Benjamin Franklin
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. β Harry S Truman
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. β Voltaire
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. β Otto von Bismarck
Politics Image Quotes
When words are both true and kind they can change the world.
Office Politics Quotes
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. β Shirley Chisholm
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism. β Max Horkheimer
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character. β Noah Webster
Be gentle with yourself, you're doing the best you can.
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. β Calvin Coolidge
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. β Deng Xiaoping
To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route. β John Glenn
Be the person your dog thinks you are.
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man. β Samuel Adams
Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate. β Louis XIV
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political. β Fred Hampton
In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose. β Molly Ivins
Dirty Politics Quotes
I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it. β Charles Bukowski
One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession. β Michael Parenti
The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty. β Michael Parenti
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
The political system, folks, is rigged. It's a rigged, disgusting, dirty system. β Brian Stelter
Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places. β Michael Parenti
I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about. β Fanny Kemble
Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.
Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours. β Kevin Rudd
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. β Richard M. Nixon
I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty. β John Mellencamp
Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you. β Will Shetterly
Truth And Politics Quotes
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others. β Charles R. Swindoll
Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. β David Ben-Gurion
The stronger you become, the gentler you will be.
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable. β George Orwell
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. β Samuel Adams
Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture. β Charles Colson
Being polite is so rare these days, thats its often confused with flirting.
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. β Phillip E. Johnson
In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... ... Far from my own country, but in deep communion with all Haitians, including Haitians abroad, I continue to launch an appeal for peaceful resistance. β Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. β Martin Luther King, Jr.
At their best, I think, the left prioritizes compassion & idealism, and the right prioritizes truth & pragmatism. Both sides are valuable in society. Unfortunately, both are too often captured by the extremes, and so we're rarely seeing the left or the right at their best. β Lex Fridman
Bad Politics Quotes
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying. β Richard Henry Lee
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole. β Frank Zappa
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures. β Julius Caesar
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, ut because you are.
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals. β Mark Twain
I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas. β James David Vance
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. β Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition. β Robert Agostinelli
The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated. β Michel Foucault
It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most. β Kanye West
Family Politics Quotes
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. β Mark Twain
For the poor, for those who want to serve, the only place left for such people is BJP. When someone joins the BJP family, it is not only about membership, we strengthen relationships. β Narendra Modi
When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial expediency, and personal preference than they do to what the Bible teaches. β Tony Evans
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician and I'll show you a crook.
Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. β Kofi Annan
I am the granddaughter of an English woman. I love England and her people and, regardless of politics, consider you to be family... and always will. β Nicola Sturgeon
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet. β Judith Martin
Politeness and courteousness are a small price to pay for the goodwill of others.
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. β Jim Doyle
Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? β Ronald Reagan
There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. β Edward Zwick
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world. β Barry Goldwater
Government And Politics Quotes
What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires. β Bernie Sanders
There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution. β John Adams
I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations. β Queen Victoria
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. β Edward R. Murrow
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. β Frederic Bastiat
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest. β Baron de Montesquieu
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. β Ronald Reagan
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves. β Marcus Tullius Cicero
Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process. β Bernie Sanders
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. β John Adams
Politics And Economics Quotes
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. β Thomas Sowell
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation. β Daniel Berrigan
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster. β Douglas MacArthur
Of the people, by the people, for the people. β Sun Yat-sen
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. β A. Philip Randolph
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. β Milton Friedman
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power. β Aldous Huxley
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. β Barbara Jordan
The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside. β Kwame Nkrumah
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government. β Tacitus
Politicians And Politics Quotes
As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically. β Antonin Scalia
An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service. β Harry S. Truman
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. β Mark Twain
A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important. β Bernie Sanders
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it. β Friedrich Engels
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. β Charles Krauthammer
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They
always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as
elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper
spheres. β Gouverneur Morris
Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures. β Robin Williams
If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you? β Tony Benn
He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other. β Tommy Douglas
Religion And Politics Quotes
All talk on Islamic States is just an empty dream. No man in his right sense would accept a nation which bases its political administration on religion, and in a country like Malaysia with its multiracial and multireligious people, there is no room for an Islamic State. β Tunku Abdul Rahman
The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics. β Charles Grandison Finney
In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. β William Booth
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined. β T. S. Eliot
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. β B. R. Babasaheb Ambedkar
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. β Anthony De Mello
A cult is a religion with no political power. β Tom Wolfe
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. β Talib Kweli
I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it. β Billy Graham
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values. β Reinhold Niebuhr
Work Politics Quotes
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. β Mahatma Gandhi
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat. β Leon Trotsky
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. β Jose Marti
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts. β Eugene McCarthy
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. β George C. Marshall
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.) β Saul Alinsky
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? β Steven Pinker
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. β Milton Friedman
I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban. β James David Vance
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. β Will Rogers
Politics Funny Quotes
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you. β Ayn Rand
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. β Eric Cantona
In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem. β George Carlin
I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag. β Molly Ivins
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target β Ashleigh Brilliant
I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom. β Tallulah Bankhead
As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution. β Andy Borowitz
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. β Ronald Reagan
A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation. β Stephen Crane
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. β Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Politics Today Quotes
Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. β Fannie Lou Hamer
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite. β Thomas Jefferson
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today. β Francis Schaeffer
From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way. β N. T. Wright
I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic commitment that the medical marijuana people have, many things could change in this country. β John Trudell
The great issues facing us today are not Republican issues or Democratic issues. The political parties can debate the means, but both parties must embrace the end objective, which is to make America great again. β Lee Iacocca
Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle? β Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek
The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world. β George H. W. Bush
In todayβs politics, if you forget that your perception of reality has probably been at least a little manipulated, and your opponents are behaving the way they are based on a perception of reality thatβs different from your own β youβre bound to get things wrong. β Tim Urban
In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one cannot sneeze without being corrected, let alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society β Tunku Abdul Rahman
Polity Quotes
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. β Muhammad Iqbal
Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India. β Manmohan Singh
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. β Charles Tennyson Turner
No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul. β Alexander Cockburn
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression . β Thurgood Marshall
No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . . β James Henley Thornwell
Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism. β Robert Higgs
Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and
brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years? β Polybius
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. β Ezra Stiles
In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest. β Zygmunt Bauman
Political Parties Quotes
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power. β Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles. β Eugene V. Debs
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party. β Mao Zedong
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. β Gerald R. Ford
The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon. β Joseph Stalin
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. β Margaret Chase Smith
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship. β Clement Attlee
From education to employment, housing to trust in the police, politicians from all parties must understand the different issues affecting individual communities. β Rishi Sunak
No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties β Bob Hope
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ruleβand both commonly succeed, and are right. β H. L. Mencken
The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people. β Bernie Sanders
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. β Heinrich Himmler
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. β Coretta Scott King
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there. β Frank Zappa
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. β Thomas Jefferson
No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business. β John F. Kennedy
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. β Abraham Lincoln
A large percentage of those living in developed societies are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should smoke, what clothes and shoes they should wear, what they should eat and what brand of food they should buy. Their political ideas are supplied in the same way. Every year a trillion dollars is spent on advertising. β Fidel Castro
That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel. β David Duke
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. β Plato
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife. β Malcolm X
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed. β Fred Hampton
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. β Joseph Stalin
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. β Malcolm X
Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass. β Jonathan Gruber
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory. β Kwame Nkrumah
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose. β Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics. β George Washington
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. β Mark Twain
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. β Winston Churchill
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. β Mahatma Gandhi
Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman. β Benito Mussolini
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. β Hermann Goring
Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news. β Zbigniew Brzezinski
A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. β Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. β Elie Wiesel
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools. β Plato
I believe the reason why he media so hates me and the reason why they make a big deal of it. This is because I'm one of the few Americans, political Americans who think that we shouldn't be led by the nose by Israel. β David Duke
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. β Groucho Marx
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