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
"Politics without morality is a game of thieves."
Émile Zola
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"Politics is the art of the possible."
Alexandre Dumas
A
"Politics at its best serves the common good."
Alexandre Dumas
C
"Politics demands integrity from its leaders."
Charlotte Brontë
"The poor are poor not from lack of ability, but from lack of opportunity."
Émile Zola
H
"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
H
"A passion for reform has strength in a nation where the people are corrupted."
Honoré de Balzac
H
"A nation's greatness is measured by the virtue of its common people."
Honoré de Balzac
V
"The supreme question of our time is not communism versus individualism, but man versus the state."
Victor Hugo
V
"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all."
Victor Hugo
V
"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
"Political systems reflect the values of their societies."
Émile Zola
C
"What is the cause of all this disorder and misery? Bad legislation."
Charles Dickens
H
"Bureaucracy is a wall between the government and the people."
Honoré de Balzac
H
"A merchant's profit is another man's necessity."
Honoré de Balzac
H
"Politics is the art of dividing the world and keeping it divided."
Honoré de Balzac
"Politics are the art of the possible."
William Wordsworth
S
"Politics is the art of the possible."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
S
"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
H
"Politics is the art of making enemies into allies through understanding."
Honoré de Balzac
J
"In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it."
John Keats
S
"Politics is the art of the possible and the impossible."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Political power without moral foundation is tyranny."
Mary Shelley
V
"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited."
Victor Hugo
V
"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