Quotes About Politics

Los déspotas siempre juzgaron necesario complementar la fuerza con la propaganda política o religiosa. En este sentido, la pluma es más poderosa que la espada. Pero la píldora es más poderosa que la pluma o la espada.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. The gorgeous fancy dress worn by kings, popes and their respective retainers, military and ecclesiastical, has a very practical purpose—to impress the lower classes with a lively sense of their masters' superhuman greatness.

In politics, the near future is likely to be closer to George Orwell's 1984 than to Brave New World.

El liberalismo, desde luego, murió de ántrax

Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic.

The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War.

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying. ---(From the pamphlet: The Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government.)

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying.

Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress. (Crowley quote from book Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, by Lawrence Sutin.)

His principle in politics was a -very simple one : If you see anything, stop it ; everything that is, is wrong ; the world is a very wicked place.

His principle in politics was a -very simple one : If you see anything, stop it ; everything that is, is wrong ; the world is a very wicked place. He was very enthusiastic about putting through a law for suppressing the evil of drugs.

En la política, querido Gerardo, lo sabes como yo: no hay hombres, si no ideas; no hay sentimientos, sino intereses; en política no se mata a un hombre, sino que se suprime un obstáculo...

Nereye varacak bu politik materyalizmin sonu? Bu gidi?e dur demenin zaman? geldi art?k!

There are no people in politics, only the ideas. There're no feelings, but only interests. In politics one does not kill a man, but removes an obstacle.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie—they see nothing wrong with it.

We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should be looking for wisdom, and choosing people who had acquired it; and such people, in general, looked bad on television - gray, lined, thoughtful.

French philosophers had been able to admire Mao and his works because they did not have to live in China at the time.

She did not have strong views on politics. She did not like the confrontational nature of much political discussion; why could people not argue politely, she wondered, taking into account the views of others and accepting that people might differ with one another in perfectly good faith?

Why should everybody embrace the herd instinct, which required one to regard one set of politicians as being always in the right while demonizing another set?

especially when it came to his triumphant denunciations of his political enemies, each of whom, she suspected, were only too relieved that it was him rather than they who had been caught. She

Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.