Politics Quotes
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Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
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The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
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It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.
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It's hard being the king, but somebody's got to do it.
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There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.
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But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.
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We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.
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The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
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I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.
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Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.
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If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.
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Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.
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The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
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Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.
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There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
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Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
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[Sen. John] Kerry is also a man who opposes the death penalty, wants to restrict access to guns and voted against the resolution approving the start of ground operations against Saddam Hussein in 1991 - just what you would expect from Ted Kennedy's partner and Michael Dukakis's running mate.
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Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
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I have no problem playing anyone who has different politics than me. In fact, I don't take that into consideration at all. You have to find something sympathetic in a man. It's that common ground you need to connect with someone.
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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
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The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.
