Politics Quotes

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

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"Politics without ethics is a house built on sand."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"The politician who serves self serves no one."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"Politics is the art of the possible."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"Politics reflects the moral character of a nation."
Jacques Charles
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"Politics at its best serves the common good."
Jacques Charles
"Envy is the basis of democracy."
Bertrand Russell
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"Politics demands integrity and vision."
Gilbert Lewis
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"The politics of science should always subordinate themselves to truth."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"Politics ought to be guided by reason rather than passion."
Robert Boyle
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"Politics is the art of compromise."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"Politics is the art of compromise."
Antoine Lavoisier
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"Political economy is the science of determining the character and circumstances of a given people."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum and rushes to fill it with whatever is available."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Political systems, like natural systems, follow discoverable laws."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Politics is the art of the possible; mathematics is the art of the necessary."
Leonhard Euler
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"In politics as in mathematics, the simplest solution is often the best."
Leonhard Euler
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"Political science is forever imperfect."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Politics should serve the cause of human flourishing."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Politics may change, but mathematical truth endures forever."
Leonhard Euler
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"Politics is the art of managing human relations."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Political order should reflect natural law."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Politics is the art of reconciling competing interests."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Political wisdom begins with understanding human nature."
René Descartes
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"Politics may change, but mathematical truth remains eternal and immutable."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Politics may divide nations, but mathematics unites all thinking beings."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Politics, like nature, rewards those who understand the underlying principles at work."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Politics is about organizing human cooperation for collective benefit."
Albert Bandura
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"Politics must be grounded in understanding human nature."
Ivan Pavlov
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"Politics is applied psychology."
Ivan Pavlov
"The problem is that we are trying to maintain a society in which people are free in the traditional sense."
B.F. Skinner