Politics Quotes

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

~ Carl Schmitt

How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Presidents are selected, not elected.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the

~ Clint Eastwood

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

~ Eugene V. Debs

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

~ H.l. Mencken

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

~ Craig Ferguson

I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.

~ José Rizal

Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.

~ T.h. White

Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz -- Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.

~ Benito Juárez

You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate mur

~ Jesse Ventura

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

~ Evita Ochel

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

~ Graydon Carter

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

~ David Foster Wallace

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

~ John Frohnmayer

As the saying goes: God made man and woman, Colonel Colt made them equal.

~ Ann Coulter

Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O

~ Keith Olbermann

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

~ Gore Vidal

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

~ Graham Greene

I am the illegal alien of commentary. I will do the jokes that no one else will do.

~ Ann Coulter

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

~ Warren Buffett

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

~ Naomi Klein

Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the same planet. They talk that way, but do they mean it? We should remind them that the words of the Declaration [of Independence] apply not only to people in this country, but also to people all over the world. People everywhere have the same right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When the government becomes destructive of that, then it is patriotic to dissent and to criticize - to do what we always praise and call heroic when we look upon the dissenters and critics in totalitarian countries who dare to speak out.

~ Howard Zinn

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

~ George Carlin

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

~ Noam Chomsky

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

~ Stephen King

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

~ Henry David Thoreau

We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians — be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.

~ Wendell Berry

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.

~ Patrick Lencioni

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

~ John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

...she studied his clothes, his top hat. “And you’ve just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?”“It’s much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don’t fall in line, you’ll leave them to die.

~ Meljean Brook

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic child who became a politician? Is he worse than the manufacturer who set up belated foundations with the money he made by handing bombs and guns to suicidal nationalists? Is he worse than the distiller who gave bastardized grain juice to stultify further the brains of those who, sober, were incapable of progressive thought? (Nay, I apologize for this calumny; I nip the brew that feeds me.) Is he worse, then, than the publisher who filled ubiquitous racks with lust and death wishes? Really, no, search your soul, lovie--is the vampire so bad?

~ Richard Matheson

DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good and slavery is bad.BIAS: predeliction for a particular dogma. For example, the feminist bias is that women are equal to men and the male chauvinist bias is that women are inferior. The unbiased view is that the truth lies somewhere in between.(an early comment on backlash, from Glossary for the Eighties)

~ Ellen Willis

It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.

~ Ron Paul

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

~ Steve Kluger

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.

~ Bob Dylan

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

~ Robert A. Heinlein