Politics Quotes

"The most important thing the state can do is to get out of the way."

"The real problem of government is not power but the legitimacy of power."

"The most powerful argument against democracy is a ten minute conversation with the average voter."

"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."

"The growth of the state should be treated as a disease."

"The greatest good of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."

"Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder."

"The whole art of government is the art of being honest."

"The only proper end of government is the happiness of mankind."

"All laws are commands of the sovereign."

"The business of government is to promote the happiness of society."

"Politics is the art of compromise."

"In politics, the greatest danger is perhaps that of over-confidence in one's own wisdom."

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Yet it remains the least bad option."

"Politics is the art of managing difference without erasing it."

"The state is not concerned with justice; it's concerned with control."

"Power operates through consent, which is manufactured through media."

"The media serves the interests of concentrated wealth."

"Systematic propaganda is the foundation of modern states."

"Democracy is a conversation, not a spectacle."

"Mass media exists to serve elite interests, not inform the public."

"Patriotism means questioning your nation's actions, not blindly supporting them."

"The state manufactures consent through carefully controlled information."

"The art of legislation is to prevent vice and promote virtue."

"The laws should be a mirror of the people, not a tool of the rulers."

"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."

"The great beauty of the gold standard is that it enforces discipline on governments."

"Competition is not so potent today in maintaining competitive prices as it was twenty or thirty years ago."

"In a properly functioning economy, the people with money do not make the important decisions."