Politics Quotes - Page 4

• I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Truth, Thinking

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2015

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• It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

  Mark Twain

  Class, Criminals, Literature

  Following the Equator ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Political, Adherence

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• The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.

  Alex Carey

  Wisdom, Democracies Have, Australia Day

  Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.18, University of Illinois Press

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• I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Party, Thinking, Voting

  H.M.S. Pinafore act 1 (1878)

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Military

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Glasses, Society

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [175]

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• Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, Warrior, Knights

  Speech nominating James G. Blaine for president, Republican National Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, 15 June 1876

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• There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Political, Nerd

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• I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

  Sydney Pollack

  Thinking, Nerd, Shame

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• The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Honesty, Integrity, Philosophy

  "Stop the Madness". "The Globe and Mail" Newspaper, July 6, 2002.

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• Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Trust, Witty, Freedom

  In Ernest Mignon Les Mots du G‚n‚ral (1962) p. 67

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• Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

  Milton Friedman

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Rights

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  Samuel Adams

  Political, Feelings, Liberty

  In J. N. Rakove 'The Beginnings of National Politics' (1979) p. 92

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• Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

  Jonathan Swift

  Political, Corruption, Understood

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.365

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• The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

  Tacitus

  Peace, Freedom, War

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,

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• Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

  George Will

  Issues, Political, Voting

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• Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

  George Will

  Education, Passion, Purpose

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Anger, Hatred, Feelings

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• A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Men, Police

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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

  Harold MacMillan

  Tea, Storm, Paper

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• Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.

  Ai Weiwei

  Air, People, Water

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• To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

  Garry Wills

  Military, Rabbits, Doe

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• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

  Nelson Mandela

  America, Political, United States

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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