Politics Quotes

"The struggle between labour and capital is the fundamental motor of history."

"The goal of the working class is the abolition of classes altogether."

"Hegemony is not something mechanically imposed but must be continually won and renewed."

"The capitalist state is not something that floats in the air but is rooted in social relations."

"The church has been historically tied to the ruling classes as an apparatus of hegemony."

"The reproduction of ideology happens through schools, media, and all cultural institutions."

"Protection therefore against the tyranny of magistrates is not enough; there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling."

"Conservatism, being an institution of society to preserve its existing state, is necessarily averse to sudden and violent change."

"The notion that one class will always rule another is a barbaric prejudice."

"The very aim and end of our institutions should be the elevation of the inferior portions of our race."

"No theory of government can be truly maintained unless it has a foundation in morality."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual."

"England does not love coalitions."

"A government is entitled to the loyalty of all its subjects, whether they agree with its politics or not."

"Britain does not wage war for sport or caprice, but only to defend her interests."

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' while you find a bigger stick."

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

"A government should promote the general welfare and protect individual liberty."

"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State."

"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary practice."

"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism; all the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre."

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment."

"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppression."

"The apparent tendency of every new law is to increase penalties as they become less effectual."

"The revenue of the state is the state."

"Those who attempt to level, never equalize."

"Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle."

"A perfect democracy is the most shameless thing in the world."

"Fear is the foundation of most governments."