Politics Quotes
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What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
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Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
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My morals went when the president got oral.
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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.
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If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
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Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
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To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
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I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
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If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.
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I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.
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But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
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Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
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I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
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In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
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An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.
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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
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Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
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If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
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Some say let's not give them too much power. But we need power to do the things we believe in and change Israeli politics. In coalition talks, we don't want to have to compromise on what we believe in.
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I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.
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There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.
