Politics Quotes

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

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"Politics is the art of the possible."
Lord Byron
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"Politics shapes destiny but character shapes legacy."
Lord Byron
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"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Politics is the art of the possible, not the impossible."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself being lynched."
Lord Byron
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"The man who loves not his country can love nothing."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Conservatism is the politics of nostalgia."
Lord Byron
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"Politics is the art of making possible that which is necessary."
Dante Alighieri
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"Politics is the arena where ideals meet the constraints of reality."
Dante Alighieri
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"The Germans are a fascinating people."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"He who controls the narrative controls the world."
Virgil
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"Politics without morality is mere sophistry."
Dante Alighieri
"Politics without morality is merely the pursuit of power for its own sake."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"True politics serves the common good, not the enrichment of the few."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Political power divorced from virtue becomes tyranny."
John Milton
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"Everything which improves the condition of mankind is political."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The only politics is kindness."
Homer
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"The political animal must first become a moral being"
Dante Alighieri
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"Politics is the art of the possible."
Pickering Edward
"In politics, as in nature, the strong oft prey upon the weak."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Politics is the art of compromise and the science of justice."
Ovid
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"Political power grows out of the barrel of conscience."
Virgil
"Politics is the art of compromise."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The politician who forgets his people deserves forgetfulness from history."
Homer
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"Politics is the art of the possible."
Homer
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"Politics is the art of deciding whose values we impose on whom."
Pickering Edward
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"Politics is the compromise between what we want and what we can live with."
Pickering Edward
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"Politics is the art of making enemies believe they are friends."
Homer
"Politics should be guided by scientific evidence."
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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"Political power, like water, always seeks its level of consciousness."
Pickering Edward