Politics Quotes

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Joseph Sobran
Anon. - to succeed in politics, it is often necessary to...
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Politics is no exact science.
Otto von Bismark
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringe
Jacob chanowski - no science is immune to the infection of politics...
Emotion is a rotten base for politics.
Dick Francis
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
William Allen White
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
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
A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson
Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.
French Prove
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
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinge
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Brooks Adams
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.
Groucho Marx
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry Goldwate
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce
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 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.
H. L. Mencken
About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste.
Randolph Silliman Bourne
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul David Alinsky
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 end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Richard Buckminster Fulle
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Albert Einstein
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those.
Gilbert Highet
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Will Rogers
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
Dalton Camp
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittaiin
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.
Frank Herbert, Dune
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn
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
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Isaac Asimov