Quotes About Politics

In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: "The 'Machine politicians' have shown their colors... I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who think of nothing higher than their own interests, and I feel for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise.

We have earned the slogan, "Yanks, go home!"

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

No hay razón práctica que justifique el deseo de independizarse de España. Comparativamente, y pese a todo, España no es un mal país. Podría ser mejor, pero dudo de que Cataluña, librada a sus fuerzas, se convirtiera en el paraíso que anuncian los partidarios de la nueva República.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

All governments require enemy governments.

The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.

The tragedy of modern war is not so much that the young men die but that they die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

The conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

I am against all forms of government, including good government.

These various interests are well organized, command more wealth than most modern nations, and are represented in Congress with a strength far greater than is justified in any constitutional or democratic sense. (Modern politics is expensive—power follows money.)

If you hope for any sort of dialogue and unity with all factions on the vaguely leftist or radical side of politics, you must cease from silly verbal abuse. If you don't want it, then we go on as we are, fractious and impotent.

It seems that the U.S. Government—what country is that?—has got another war going somewhere, I forget exactly where, on another continent as usual, and they want Waterman to go over there and fight for them. For IT, I mean—when did a government ever consist of human beings?

Modern politics is expensive—power follows money.)

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Tyranny," said Solon, "is a fair field, but it has no outlet." A subtle, as well as a noble saying; it implies that he who has once made himself the master of the state has no option as to the means by which he must continue his power. Possessed of that fearful authority, his first object is to rule, and it becomes a secondary object to rule well.