Politics Quotes
Politics is the art of the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.Otto von Bismarck
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.John George Diefenbake
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.Ernest Benn
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.Lester R Bittel
It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.Herbert Clark Hoove
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.John Kenneth Galbraith
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.G. M. Trevelyan
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - - And hence clamorous to be led to safety - - By menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.Henry Louis Mencken
The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.Emmeline Pankhurst
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.Peggy Noonan
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.Alfred E. Newman
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.Roy Hattersley
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Lester B. Pearson
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.Henry Adams
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.H. L. Mencken
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.R. A. Butle
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.George Jean Nathan
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.Dalton Camp
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.Ronald Reagan
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.Marcel Archard
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.Vera Brittaiin
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those.Gilbert Highet
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.Francois Arouet
To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.Theodore Roszak
Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.Edward De Bono
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.Frank Herbert, Dune
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.John Berge
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.Lyndon B. Johnson
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.Plato
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.Barry Goldwate
