Politics Quotes

"Politics divorced from morality becomes mere ambition."

"Men are not in the habit of listening to women."

"Politics is the art of managing human disappointment."

"Slowly comes a hungry people as a lion creeping nigher."

"Politics may divide nations, but kindness unites humanity."

"Politics without ethics is the corruption of power."

"Politics without compassion becomes the machinery of oppression."

"Politics reveals the true nature of humanity."

"Politics is the art of convincing people to want what benefits someone else."

"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it."

"Politics serves people best when guided by principle."

"Politics shapes the world."

"The people must be brought to their senses."

"The soul of a nation lies in its people."

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

"It is not by speeches and votes that great questions in this world are decided."

"Society is not made of tradition. It is made of people."

"Every generation must earn its freedom anew."

"For a country is not just more important than an individual, it is just completely incomparable with him."

"In the age of democracy we are moving from a society that offers absolute truths to one that offers competing truths."

"Politics is the art of compromise between principles."

"Politics should serve the people, not the powerful"

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's ears being cut off, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"Respect for the law is the condition upon which our right to live together in society depends."

"In our time the most dangerous belief is that evil can be cured by laws."

"Politics is the art of making people believe in necessities."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Political power without moral foundation inevitably crumbles."

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

"We must resist the tyranny of ideology with reason."