Politics Quotes

"The question is not whether we should regulate business but whether government should regulate it."

"Government monopolies are the worst monopolies because they have no competitors."

"Government is good at destroying wealth and bad at creating it."

"Price controls inevitably lead to shortages and black markets."

"Democratic government is simply a way of organizing the use of force."

"When government tries to do too much it ends up doing everything badly."

"Democracy requires an informed and educated citizenry."

"Politics should serve the common good, not private interests."

"Capitalism is being killed by its achievements."

"Socialists always think that the trouble with capitalism is capitalism, when the trouble is that it is not capitalism."

"The first thing to recognize is that even the most perfect capitalism is subject to criticism."

"Democracy is a system in which decisions of reasonable social importance are left to the vote of the majority."

"The real crisis of modern capitalism is not in the realm of production, but in the realm of authority and moral conviction."

"All this meant that bourgeois society was becoming a house divided against itself, politically as well as spiritually."

"The real danger to capitalism comes not from political opposition but from its own success in raising living standards."

"The question is not whether capitalism can survive, but whether the civilization it has created can survive without it."

"The question of who should control the means of production is ultimately a question of values, not economics."

"Cultural institutions maintain inequality not through force alone but through the normalization of injustice."

"Every policy choice reflects a decision about whose interests matter and whose do not."

"Social change never occurs because the privileged voluntarily surrender advantage."

"Waste is a constant feature of modern capitalist society."

"The role of government is to facilitate, not to dominate."

"The masses are easily swayed by rhetoric and emotion, seldom by logic."

"The masses follow leaders not because they understand them, but because they trust them."

"Compromise is what we call it when we lose in a civilized manner."

"Revolution is the dream of those too impatient for evolution."

"Truth in politics is the rarest commodity, more valuable than gold."

"The comfortable classes fear change more than the poor fear poverty."

"Monopoly power corrupts not just markets but the very foundations of democratic society."

"Laissez-faire is the philosophy of those already on top."