Quotes About Politics

I would delete Donald Trump. I would delete Hillary Clinton. I would delete the man who was responsible for Brexit.

Imagine a world where Hillary Clinton actually knew what she was talking about.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton had so much more money than the Trump campaign, yet, we see who won that election.

I've never made a political donation to Hillary Clinton or any other political candidate.

It is a serious mistake to assume that people are simply always voting in their self-interest.

People do not necessarily vote in their self-interest. They vote their identity. They vote their values. They vote for who they identify with. They may identify with their self-interest. That can happen. It is not that people never care about their self-interest. But they vote their identity. And if their identity fits their self-interest, they will vote for that. It is important to understand that point.

People who self-identify as "moderates" appear not to be inbetweeners, but rather biconceptuals—conservative in some issue areas and progressive in others. Last

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.

To confess uprightness in one of the opposite party seemed to most men to involve treachery to their own.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies something not desirable...In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved

For some reason, all the best matadors were Fascists.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find--this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify--that the German, Russian, and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.

If you hate violence and don't believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.