Quotes About Politics

The highest art in low politics is to be able to induce the masses to invest their own sense of dignity in yours. Then, if you are exposed as a fraud, they will be exposed as credulous: a conclusion they approach with a natural human reluctance.

Orwell's 'views' have been largely vindicated by Time, so he need not seek any pardon on that score. But what he illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views' do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

George Bush is a WASP. George Wallace may have been a white Protestant of Anglo-Saxon descent, and even rather vocal on all three points, but a WASP he was not.

Never forget that the Muslim fundamentalists are not against 'empire.' They fight proudly for the restoration of their own lost caliphate.

the idea that two and two make five, for instance, was suggested by multiple sources. Stalin's propagandists were fond of saying that they completed the first Five Year Plan in four years; this was sometimes rendered for the simple-minded as 2+2=5.

The most arresting thing about Palin, indeed, is the absolutely unbreachable serenity of her ignorance. She already has all the information she requires.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language

The Emperor decided to make a proclamation to his troops about the importance of compassion in the face of the rising tide of heinous fuckery and political weaselocity in the nearby kingdom of the United States.

They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker. That's a whole different program. Political science, I think.

evil is our trade, but not so deep a darkness as politics.

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.

The Emperor decided to make a proclamation to the troops about the importance of compassion in the face of the rising tide of heinous fuckery and political weaselocity in the nearby kingdom of the United States.

Steady and righteous we may be, my friend, but without courage to risk ourselves for our brother, we are but politicians—blustering whores to rhetoric.

A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you're a politician, right?

no somos más que políticos: vociferantes putas de la retórica.

políticos: vociferantes putas de la retórica.

War is the lifeblood of this merchant republic.

no somos más que políticos: vociferantes putas de la retórica. Lazarus

Well, one guy died because of something I said to him, and another had a heart attack because of something I did. A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you're a politician, right? So why me?

If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing.

soy un infiel descreído de Dios. Al menos, así voté en las últimas elecciones.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.' George Bernard Shaw

She didn't have much faith in the accountability of governments.

Having lived so long, I can't tell the difference between the two political parties. They both sound like broken records that started skipping after the founding fathers died. Now there were some real men!