Politics Quotes
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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Politics is like bad cinema — people overact, take it too far. When I speak with politicians, I see this in their facial expressions, their eyes, the way they squint. I look at things like a producer. I would often watch a scene on the monitor, and the director and I would yell, ‘Stop, no more, this is unwatchable! No one will believe this.’
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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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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Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.
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Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
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I never believed that politics had a place in art, that is to say, not in artistic relationships.
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I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.
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I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.
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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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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
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Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.
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There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
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I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.
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Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.
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We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.
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What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that we've had for a long time.
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
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The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics.
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Politics has the gift of pulling you out of your narrow milieu.
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The Captain just gave us our orders, and Mom we must carry them through. I'll finish this letter first chance I get, but for now I'll just say I love you.
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Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.
