Quotes About Politics

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order.

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing

Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticise or complain. On

Therefore I will not 'learn' politics but let politics teach me.

In addition, I had the greatest interest in anything connected with politics, but this did not seem to me very significant. On the contrary: in my eyes, this was the self-evident duty of every thinking man, Anyone who failed to understand this lost the right to any criticism or complaint

You cam build only when you have first created the political conditions for it.

First, I became a nationalist.

È più facile ingannare le masse con una fandonia esagerata che con una piccola bugia.

The parliamentary institution attracts people of the badger type, who do not like the open light. No upright man, who is ready to accept personal responsibility for his acts, will be attracted to such an institution.

the general run of politicians will always eschew those schemes for the future which are really difficult to put into practice; and they will practise this avoidance so that they may not lose the immediate favour of the mob. The importance and the success of such politicians belong exclusively to the present and will be of no consequence for the future. But that does not worry small-minded people; they are quite content with momentary results.

As a contrast to this kind of democracy we have the German democracy, which is a true democracy; for here the leader is freely chosen and is obliged to accept full responsibility for all his actions and omissions. The problems to be dealt with are not put to the vote of the majority; but they are decided upon by the individual, and as a guarantee of responsibility for those decisions he pledges all he has in the world and even his life.

If some Church dignitaries should misuse religious ceremonies or religious teaching to injure their own nation, their opponents should never take the same road and fight them with the same weapons... To a political leader, the religious teachings and practices of his people should be sacred and inviolable. Otherwise he shouldn't be a statesman but a reformer-if he has the necessary qualities for such a task!

i will not "learn" politics but let politics teach me

Chi non aveva comprensione per la politica, perdeva per ciò stesso il diritto a ogni critica e a ogni protesta

Hiç ÅŸüphe yok ki, her zaman birtak?m vicdandan yoksun kimseler bulunur. Böyle kimseler ayn? zamanda dini kendi karanl?k siyasi görüÅŸlerine alet ederler.

Mi sono convinto che l'uomo, salvo particolarissimi casi, non deve occuparsi apertamente di politica prima di avere trent'anni. Prima di quell'età si forma in lui solo una base generale, dalla quale egli poi esamina i concreti problemi politici e stabilisce definitivamente i suoi rapporti con essi. Solo dopo aver raggiunto una simile visione basilare del mondo, che l'uomo maturo ha, potrà partecipare alla direzione politica della collettività

No improvement can be brought about until it is understood that economics play one a second- or third-rate role, while the primary factors are politics, morality, and blood. Only when this is understood will it be possible to understand the causes of the present evil, and thus to find the ways and means of curing them.