Quotes About Politics

Philosophy has become the shadow of itself over the years. Nine parts history and one part reflection on history. It has been ages since anything original came forth in the field. All the good thinking has already been done. Nowadays, philosophers are mostly institutionalized academics—like me—focused more on the politics of tenure than on philosophizing.

Mientras don Julio estaba en el jiji-jajá con los mentados representantes del secretario de Gobernación, saboreando exquisitos platillos provenzales en salsa de puterías, la policía alistaba una colección de dóbermans y de pastores belgas prestos a arrancarles los huevos a los reos.

Si se me preguntara qué hacer para volver la política un asunto honrado no dudaría en responder: debemos eliminar a los políticos. Una

En México los políticos han sido, salvo contadas excepciones, una vergüenza pública: su preocupación más importante es obtener beneficios para sí mismos en detrimento del bien común. Lucran con las desgracias de su comunidad en pos de fortalecer o imponer su imagen para propósitos electorales. La

décadas enteras de mala política, de inmensos desequilibrios económicos, de pésima educación no pueden más que llevar a una comunidad al suicidio o a la histeria.

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

There's no longer a need for the Communist Party USA because the Democratic Party has adopted all our platforms.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men seldom surpass the standard of the most ordinary individuals.

The candidates' written programme should not be too categorical, since later on adversaries might bring it up against them; in their verbal programme, however, there cannot be too much exaggeration. The most important reforms may be fearlessly promised. At the moment they are made, these exaggerations produce a great effect, and they are not binding for the future.

Peoples are not governed in accordance with their caprices of the moment, but as their character determines that they shall be governed. Centuries are required to form a political system and centuries needed to change it. Institutions have no intrinsic virtue: in themselves they are neither good nor bad.

for the rival candidate, an effort must be made to destroy his chance by establishing by dint of affirmation, repetition, and contagion that he is an arrant scoundrel, and that it is a matter of common knowledge that he has been guilty of several crimes.

A minor bureaucrat's demand for payment to process a form is condemned as corruption. A national leader's sweetheart privatization of public assets to friends and relatives is applauded as market liberalization.

She has opinions on everything--Princess Di, children's television, Salman Rushdie, the modern man, designer clothes, the morals of politicians and the politics of morality. No subject has drifted into her sights that she couldn't pass a 200-word judgement on within half an hour.

Dictatorship means shut up, democracy means keep talking!

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

Thatcher began the privatization of the most precious part of Britain's social commons, the National Health Service, through what her economic advisers called the 'micro-politics of privatization'. The idea was that the government should gradually cut resources for a popular service so as to undermine faith in its capacity to deliver, leading to acceptance of

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

Bombing people in the Middle East is something Western governments can do without incurring significant casualties on their own side, so it is politically safe and answers the public demand for action.

További szerencse, bár természetes adottság, hogy ellenzékünknek nincs programja, célja mindössze annyi, mint mindig minden ellenzéknek: benyomni néhány emberét a kormányba.