Politics Quotes

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

Henry Brooks Adams

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

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

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

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

Plato

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

John George Diefenbake

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

Plato

Politics is no exact science.

Otto von Bismark