Quotes About Politics

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

The combination of royal, aristocratic, and democratic power makes only a democracy.

Toate regimurile li se par bune, în afara celor care au c?zut. ?i le plac revolu?iile când ei sunt cei care le fac.

Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

The Eisenhower administration, and Ike himself, bear heavy responsibility for snuffing out responsible government in Iran.

If Landon took the high road, Gerald L. K. Smith, Father Coughlin, and the Union party took the low. Alarmed at Lemke's failure to gain traction, Union party rhetoric escalated to a level of vituperation seldom seen in American public life. "I'll teach them how to hate," Smith boasted. "Religion and patriotism, keep going on that. It's the only way you can get them really 'het up.'

Fascism is theater.

What made the colony a realm distinct from the realm of the living was the change of symbols and, in certain cases, of values. The colonists had their own dialect, which was closely related to that of the prisons, and hence a particular ethics and politics.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me the State may be given up for lost.

He knew now that corruption is inherent in power, and, even worse, stupidity!

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

exacerbated eagerness to exploit the ignorance and prejudice of voters.

It's our job to look at the issues and elect people. Once we've done that, that's our part over with. It's not up to us to run the country.

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

Demokratien pflegen ihre Feinde, sie liquidieren ihre Gegner.

He mispronounces the word hombres in the style of the US president who, attempting to call migrants bad men, inadvertently referred to them as bad hunger instead. It's a joke now, full of irony. Bad hunger. El comandante toes the line.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.

trop fameux Gott mit uns, aujourd'hui repris par George Bush dans le cadre de sa lutte contre l'« axe du Mal », l'homme justifie ses intentions belliqueuses en utilisant la religion à ses propres fins, et n'hésite pas à déclarer la guerre en son nom. Une pratique mal décelée dans le bouddhisme, encore que ce soit en terre bouddhique que se sera perpétrée, on l'a dit, la folle aventure génocidaire de Pol Pot. Une

The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.