Quotes About Politics

Division leaders in large, established organizations are adept at using politics to enlarge their budgets but know that those budgets are somewhat loose. They often acquire as large a budget as possible and prepare to defend it against incursions from other departments.

The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, so many worlds men make for themselves, are in a very fundamental way fantastic.

I tend to agree with the guy who said diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

Platão havia chegado a compreender algo que os modernos reformadores e revolucionários políticos são incapazes de compreender: que uma reforma não pode ser realizada por um líder bem intencionado que recrute os seus seguidores entre as mesmas pessoas cuja confusão moral é a fonte da desordem.

advocates of opinions who attack one another in daily politics are grouped together over against their common adversary, the philosopher. When

Some days, it feels unreasonable to expect that an academic text can work as a form of movement assessment or to support social and political change, including the redistribution of power. Perhaps nonfiction & the arts--literature, poetry & film--are potentially much better suited to the work of politically engaging audiences than the staid tools of the academy.

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

modern times, of course, political ideologies have taken over the numinous function, with the face of the leader multiplied on a thousand banners.

A new phrase occurs to him, and the neatness of it opens his face a little. "It's crystal-clear, at this election," he says. "It is a choice between me as prime minster and Bill Shorten as prime minister. You vote for me, you'll get me. You vote for Bill Shorten and you'll get Bill Shorten.

Imagine if one should drag an innocent passer-by from the street to the operating room of a nearby hospital and force him at gunpoint to perform a delicate operation. The man would burst into tears. However, if one were to ask him to sound off on problems such as nuclear experiments, Vietnam, the borders of Israel, support for Indonesia, aid to Latin America, or recognition of Red China, in most cases he would start spouting opinions.

Modifying Clausewitz' aphorism—war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means—one could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but the continuation of parliamentarism with other means.

People always rely on the incompetent idiot defense—it doesn't hurt them. Look at Iran-Contra. They named an airport after that guy.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

The legitimacy of the government depends on the continuous exercise of an act of forgetting.

Professional politics is a trade in which the sly outweigh the wise.

There is simply too much to think about. It is hopeless -- too many kinds of special preparation are required. In electronics, in economics, in social analysis, in history, in psychology, in international politics, most of us are, given the oceanic proliferating complexity of things, paralyzed by the very suggestion that we assume responsibility for so much. This is what makes packaged opinion so attractive.

People reserve their best thinking for their professional specialties and, next in line, for serious matters confronting the alert citizen--economics, politics, the disposal of nuclear waste, etc. The day's work done, they want to be entertained.

He was one of those people who constantly seems to be having a conversation with someone other than the person he's actually talking to—presumably someone much more politically committed. And interested.

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.

Whenever a religious movement has gained the reins of governmental power, individual liberties are strangled.