Politics Quotes

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

~ James Joyce

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

~ Barack Obama

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

~ Milan Kundera

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.

~ Frantz Fanon

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

~ Edward R. Murrow

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

~ John F. Kennedy

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

~ H.l. Mencken

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

~ Thomas Jefferson

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking

~ Stephen Fry

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

~ George Bernard Shaw

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

~ Howard Zinn

He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

~ George Bernard Shaw

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

~ Toni Morrison

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

~ Frederick Douglass

As government expands, liberty contracts.

~ Ronald Reagan

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

~ Noam Chomsky

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

~ Charles De Gaulle

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.

~ Bertolt Brecht

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of course —those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape ‘kit ‘n’ stuff, But for everybody else, it’s a win-win. Unless you’re a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years - whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know - actually, I take it back. The whole thing’s a disaster.

~ Tina Fey

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in

~ Harry Truman

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.

~ Michael Pollan

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

~ Ronald Reagan

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

~ Alan Moore

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

~ Noam Chomsky

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.

~ Thomas Jefferson

On Undecided Voter​s: To put them in perspective, I think​ of being​ on an airplane.​ The flight attendant comes​ down the aisle​ with her food cart and, eventually,​ parks​ it beside my seat.​ “Can I inter​est you in the chick​en?​” she asks.​ “Or would​ you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broke​n glass​ in it?”To be undecided in this elect​ion is to pause​ for a moment and then ask how the chick​en is cooked.

~ David Sedaris

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

~ Gore Vidal

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

~ Ron Paul

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

~ Frantz Fanon

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

~ Sidney Sheldon

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workingmen of all countries unite!

~ Karl Marx

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

~ Abraham Lincoln

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.

~ Eça De Queirós

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

~ Henry Kissinger

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

~ Stieg Larsson

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk