Quotes About Politics

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.

Politicians will always be honest.To themselves!

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.

It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.

Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it.

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.

a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.