Quotes About Politics

Ten years ago every second person at Delhi drinks parties seemed to be either an old schoolfriend of the Prime Minister or a member of his cabinet. Now, quite suddenly, no one in Delhi knows anyone in power. A major democratic revolution has taken place almost unnoticed, leaving the urban Anglicised élite on the margins of the Indian political landscape.

The Company's ever-growing Indian empire could not have been achieved without the political and economic support of regional power groups and local communities. The

Siraj's most serious error was to alienate the great bankers of Bengal, the Jagat Seths. The Seths' machinations had brought Aliverdi to power, and anyone who wanted to operate in the region did well to cultivate their favour; but Siraj did the opposite to the two men of the family

as Edmund Burke famously put it, 'a state in the guise of a merchant'.

As the political sky darkened, the court was lost in a last idyll of pleasure gardens, courtesans and mushairas , or poetic symposia, Sufi devotions and visits to pirs , as literary and religious ambition replaced the political variety.

Forget the politics of your agony. Politicians are vermin in the soul. They sway with the winds and keep you angry, and anger becomes madness, and madness is the step before death.

Nothing more repulsive than to watch the country of Goethe and Beethoven revert to the barbarism of Stuart England and Bourbon France

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

Politicians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably.

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

What is morally wrong cannot be politically right.

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

Out of the range of practical politics.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!

Democracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom.

The real reason DHS chief Jeh Johnson supports McCaul is because behind the tough talk, McCaul shares the same immigration reform amnesty positions as Johnson, Obama, and Clinton!" USA Today Nov. 30, 2016

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

But there are certain disadvantages that may seem the necessary result of democratical equality. In political society it is reasonable to suppose that the wise will be outnumbered by the unwise, and it will be inferred 'that the welfare of the whole will therefore be at the mercy of ignorance and folly.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy. An