Politics Quotes

Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.

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"Politics is a form of warfare carried on by other means."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Politics without morality is a game of thieves."
Émile Zola
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"Politics is the art of the possible."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Politics at its best serves the common good."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Politics demands integrity from its leaders."
Charlotte Brontë
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"The poor are poor not from lack of ability, but from lack of opportunity."
Émile Zola
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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to obtain the necessaries of life."
Honoré de Balzac
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"A passion for reform has strength in a nation where the people are corrupted."
Honoré de Balzac
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"A nation's greatness is measured by the virtue of its common people."
Honoré de Balzac
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"The supreme question of our time is not communism versus individualism, but man versus the state."
Victor Hugo
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"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all."
Victor Hugo
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"To be a socialist is to believe that the poor have rights."
Victor Hugo
"One should love one's country, but not necessarily its government."
Gustave Flaubert
"The political is always personal."
Mary Shelley
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"Political systems reflect the values of their societies."
Émile Zola
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"What is the cause of all this disorder and misery? Bad legislation."
Charles Dickens
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"Bureaucracy is a wall between the government and the people."
Honoré de Balzac
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"A merchant's profit is another man's necessity."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Politics is the art of dividing the world and keeping it divided."
Honoré de Balzac
"Politics are the art of the possible."
William Wordsworth
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"Politics is the art of the possible."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Politics shapes our world."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Politics is the art of making enemies into allies through understanding."
Honoré de Balzac
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"In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it."
John Keats
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"Politics is the art of the possible and the impossible."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Political power without moral foundation is tyranny."
Mary Shelley
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"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited."
Victor Hugo
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"Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything."
Victor Hugo
"Politics without principle is empty."
William Wordsworth