Quotes About Politics

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

We live under a government of men—and morning newspapers.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

The culturalization of politics analytically vanquishes political economy, states, history, and international and transnational relations. It eliminates colonialism, capital, caste or class stratification, and external political domination from accounts of political conflict or instability. In their stead, "culture" is summoned to explain the motives and aspirations leading to certain conflicts

formal political life is a theater of nihilism: the political sphere is where nihilism is played out in raw form and also a site for overcoming or pushing back against nihilism through pursuit of worldly causes. In our time, both potentials are there, and routinely collide.

Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa

Political chaos is scary for the orthodox, creative for the unorthodox; what politics sees as instability appears as dynamism in terms of commercial and cultural development.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

The more people tried to address the issue of sectarianism, the more violent the regime became.

I walked around and saw writing on the walls, like: "There is no God but Bashar," and "Assad, or we'll burn down the country.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah wanted to come from Lebanon to Syria to help the regime. One way was through al-Qusayr, because it's right on the border.

Les États-Unis dépensent des milliards de dollars en militaires pour les guerres, mais ils ne peuvent pas donner aux dirigeants haïtiens honnêtes de l'argent pour développer Haïti, et pourtant ils ont dit qu'ils aimaient Haïti.

The truth is, Russia is strong because its President Vladimir Putin is not a coward.

Every political action consequently threatens to become an automatic farce in a spectropolitical theater.

I used to think that people worried about one world government were more than a little paranoid. Today, not so much.

Keep these things in mind: history and family. They are inseparable. In the 20th century you feel all those things that went before have very little to do with you, that you are immuned to the past by the present day. All those dead people and conflicts and ideas-why, they are only stories we tell another. History and politics and conflicts and rebellion and family and betrayal. Think about it.

my century..is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form….

Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves. . . . For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

Hence that morganatic bond between the forces of the left and the forces of the right (a director of a big steel company, the co-owner of a great department store, a figure high in the Republican organization, come quickly to mind) which made confusing common cause in exculpating Hiss by defaming Chambers.

That's why I'll never run for office. Because you have to be too clean. I am not clean. I've had a lot of mud. Forget the skeletons, I've got the mud. And, know what? I don't want to have to explain me to anybody.