Politics Quotes

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
Otto von bismarck - politics is the art of the possible. originally,...
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
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
Robert louis stevenson - politics is perhaps the only profession for which...
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
Politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers
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 is no exact science.
Otto von Bismark
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
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
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
Roy Hattersley
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse - Tung
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
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
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel Archard
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Lucille Ball
My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.
Y. Yakigawa
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Paul Val? ry
The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson
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 is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Joseph Sobran
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
Mahatma Gandhi
I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
Theodore Roosevelt
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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
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
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
Alfred E. Newman