Quotes About Politics

Durante los ocho años de presidencia de George W. Bush, y los primeros cuatro de Barack Obama, el país desembolsó un billón de dólares para crear la estructura de seguridad más mastodóntica, engorrosa, duplicada y tal vez ineficaz que el mundo había conocido jamás.

The seven social evils are politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce and industry without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Kurt Schumacher, the Hanover-based anti-Nazi who quickly became the leading figure in the post-war Social Democratic Party, was outraged. 'Wir sind kein Negervolk' ('We are not blacks') the fiery former concentration-camp inmate told Annan.

We're all idealists, all materialists; and the final judgment or label is simply a matter of ideology, or, if you prefer, of political commitment.

In practice, American modernizers tended to be distrustful of populist politics and inclined to favor elite-led societies; often they turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and social control.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

Die Partei weiß genau, daß sie nur jene zu fürchten hat, welche die Ideale ernst nehmen, die sie zu verkörpern vorgibt.

Ein Hohlkopf an der Spitze einer Großmacht, Nationalrat, und schon werden wir weggeschwemmt, ein Gastmann, und schon sind unsere Ketten durchbrochen, die Vorposten umgangen.

Der Schiksal der Menschen wird davon abhängen, ob sich die Politik endlich bequemt, das Leben eines jeden heilig zu nehmen, oder ob die Hure weiterhin für jene auf die Straße geht, denen nichts heilig ist. Die Dame muß sich entscheiden.

Je öfter sich ein Politiker widerspricht, desto größer ist er.

Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country.

I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them -- one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d'oeuvres.

City folk, particularly politicians, were intimidated by small arms. They preferred to kill people with more modern weapons, like poverty and despair.

Money is behind every war," Au-nak continued. "Religion is but an excuse. Or perhaps a justification.

you can't avoid politics by pretending you're not part of them.

I didn't know enough about human politics to know who was correct, but I did know enough about politics in general to guess that everyone would interpret the law in the way that best suited themselves.

Yes. You read that right. Evil Librarians control the world. They keep everyone in ignorance, teaching them falsehoods in place of history, geography, and politics. It's kind of a joke to them. Why else do you think the Librarians named themselves what they did? Librarians. LIE-brarians. Sounds obvious now, doesn't it? If you wish to smack yourself in the forehead and curse loudly, you may proceed to do so. I can wait.

Marasi had abandoned aspirations toward politics in her youth, and had recently abandoned the solicitors as well. The thing was, those professions had one important flaw: They were populated entirely with attorneys and politicians.

It was gratifying to see how much one could accomplish in both politics and trade by liberally murdering the other fellow's soldiers.

No, I lost every one," Hesho said. "The rest of the assembly voted unanimously against my desires in each matter. What rotten luck! Ah, the indignities you must suffer when your people are a true democracy, and not a shadow dictatorship ruled by an ancestral line of kings. Right?" The other kitsen flying past raised a cheer for democracy.

As soon as one revolution achieves its goal, another will begin to scheme.