Politics Quotes

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Chanowski

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Peggy Noonan

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.

Theodore Roszak

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Brooks Adams

I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.

Lyndon B. Johnson

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry Kissinge

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

Edward De Bono

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.

Francois Arouet

Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Lucille Ball

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwate

What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Joseph Sobran

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

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

Mao Tse - Tung

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

John Berge

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - - And hence clamorous to be led to safety - - By menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Henry Louis Mencken

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Fawn M. Brodie

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Vera Brittaiin

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.

Y. Yakigawa

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Val? ry

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Julius Henry Marx

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

Theodore Roosevelt

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Frank Herbert, Dune