Quotes About Politics

I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.

Nebo: lidé prý vidÄ›li neÅ¡tÄ›stí, netajili se s tím a varovali. Ale to v politice neplatí, jestliže to nevedlo k ?in?m a jestliže tyto ?iny nebyly úsp?šné.

representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament

Democracy is the road to Socialism.

every class struggle is a political struggle.

noblesse parlementaire par cinq départements qui avaient groupé leurs vois sur son nom. Ainsi, la Montagne paraissait, le 29 mai 1849, étant donné les conflits inévitables entre les différentes fractions monarchistes et entre l'ensemble du parti de l'ordre et Bonaparte, avoir pour elle tous les éléments de succès. Quinze jours plus tard, elle avait tout perdu, y compris l'honneur.

What is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist

When Bauer asks Jews: Have you the right from your standpoint to crave political emancipation? we would inquire on the contrary: Has the standpoint of political emancipation the right to demand of Jews the abolition of Judaism, or from men generally the abolition of religion.

Whoever controls Germany, controls Europe.

Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as 'policy.

We're all Bolsheviks now," Izzie said blithely. "And at my table!" Hugh said and laughed.

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

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.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.