Politics Quotes

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and imprisonment."

"The reformer is always right about what is wrong, he is generally wrong about what is right."

"Politics is the arena where the values of society are tested."

"Politics reveals whether we value justice or only self-interest."

"The politician who claims to have all the answers has not truly understood the questions."

"Society exists to promote the welfare of all its members."

"The bureaucrat who follows orders blindly is more dangerous than the tyrant who gives them."

"Politics without principle is corruption."

"Politics is the art of compromise."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself from being lynched."

"I love my country—not the government, but the country itself."

"Politics is the art of making people believe they have power while actually giving it away."

"Politics is the art of avoiding truth while pursuing power."

"Politics is the art of making the impossible seem inevitable."

"In every country where man is free to think and to speak, differences of opinion will arise."

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it."

"The greater the state, the more wrong it is."

"Politics is the art of compromise."

"Politics shapes the world we inhabit."

"Politics shapes the fate of nations."

"Politics is the art of postponing death by other means."

"Political change begins with moral awakening."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"In a country where the ruler is the slave of his passion, there is no freedom."

"Politics is the art of the possible; poetry is the art of the impossible."

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor."

"The more highly organized the state, the more completely are its freedoms withdrawn from it by the bureaucracy."

"Every revolution was once considered treason by those in power."

"Political systems are only as just as the people who create and maintain them."