Quotes About Politics

To find oneself at the mercy of the people's whims, thanks to universal suffrage, is what liberalism calls the guarantee of freedom.

The political presence of the masses always culminates in a hellish apocalypse.

The Left does not always kill, but it always lies.

The terrorist is the liberal's grandchild.

Alle Welt ist heute links. Welche Erleichterung!

La política sabia es el arte de vigorizar la sociedad y de debilitar el Estado.

The leftist, like the polemicist of yesteryear, believes he refutes an opinion by accusing the holder of that opinion of immorality.

Wird einem Demokraten ein Finger brandig, fällt ihm nur eines ein: Ein Gesetz zu fordern, das das Abschneiden aller Hände anordnet.

Natural inequalities would make the democrat's life bitter, if slander did not exist.

Der Fortschrittler triumphiert immer und der Reaktionär hat immer recht. Recht haben heißt in der Politik nicht die Szene beherrschen, sondern vom ersten Akt an die Leichen des fünften vorhersagen.

Democracy celebrates the cult of humanity on a pyramid of skulls.

Democrats can be divided into those who believe wickedness is curable and those who deny it exists.

Los políticos, en la democracia, son los condensadores de la imbecilidad.

A man is called a liberal if he does not understand that he is sacrificing liberty except when it is too late to save it.

Today's conservatives are nothing more than liberals who have been ill-treated by democracy

Among the vices of democracy one must count the impossibility of someone occupying an important position there without it being his ambition.

Die Fanatiker der Freiheit enden als Theoretiker der Polizei. Die Doktrin Fichtes zum Beispiel gipfelt in einer Theorie des Reisepasses.

Capitalism is the monstrous distortion of private property by liberal democracy.

They started out calling liberal institutions democratic, and they ended up calling democratic despotisms liberal.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

We reactionaries are unfortunate: the left steals our ideas and the right our vocabulary.

The disaster of democracy only becomes apparent when its promises have been fully fulfilled.

To be on the left is to believe that the omens of catastrophe are omens of prosperity.

Die Aristokraten sind die normalen; die Demokraten die Fehlgeburten der Geschichte.