Politics Quotes

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

~ John Adams

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

~ Mao Zedong

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

~ Herbert Hoover

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

~ Jonathan Haidt

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

~ H. Rap Brown

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

~ Oliver Stone

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

~ Chris Jordan

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

~ John Foster Dulles

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

~ Winston Churchill

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

~ Aldous Huxley

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

~ Albert Pike

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

~ Winston Churchill

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

~ Alfred Adler

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.

~ Edward Said

I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.

~ Amitabh Bachchan

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.

~ Michael Ignatieff

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

~ Rahm Emanuel

I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.

~ James Howard Kunstler

Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.

~ Antony Gormley

From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

~ Monica Johnson

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

~ Gerard Way

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

~ Jay-Z

Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

~ Sean Combs

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

~ Charles Kennedy

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

~ Deborah Eisenberg

We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.

~ Jorge M. Perez

Politics have been changed forever because of people. The Internet is one of the tools that has helped. And it isn't just politics. The new networked dynamics that are now possible with these new forms of communication are also changing the way people engage as consumers that demand more social value from corporations.

~ Jeremy Heimans

I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

~ Conor Mcgregor

I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound.

~ Diane Lane

You cannot mix sports with politics.

~ Jackie Chan

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

~ Gabriel Iglesias

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know?

~ Norm Macdonald

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.

~ Norm Macdonald

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

~ Vladimir Putin