Quotes About Politics

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

I have a better head of hair than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you.

It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.

I think Barack Obama thinks that Muslims are the ones being persecuted, and he has to change that. The fact is he is contributing to Christians being persecuted, not only around the world, but in America as well.

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

I want to categorically say that whatever I am, I have made a space for myself in Indian politics and media out of my own perseverance and hard work.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in such a way that individual and collective interests are identical – all constraints having disappeared – it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

It is through separation that you will win: no representatives, and no candidates!

Nevertheless, it is with the help of these metaphysical toys that governments have been established since the beginning of the world, and it is with their help that we shall come to resolve the enigma of politics, if we are willing to make the slightest effort to do so. I hope I will be forgiven, then, for labouring this point, as one does in teaching the rudiments of grammar to children.

La démagogie est l'hypocrisie du progrès.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

Porfirio Díaz era solito dire: "Povero Messico, così lontano da Dio e così vicino agli Stati Uniti".

Socjalizm by? pi?kny, ale niestety nie odpowiada? psychice ludzkiej i post?powaniu normalnego cz?owieka.

Conferences are assemblies of people who argue about how to conduct an argument and end by sending a telegram of congratulation to the minister.

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy passes into despotism.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

How, then, might we contrive… one noble lie to persuade if possible the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city?

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.