Politics Quotes

"Government exists to secure the conditions of human happiness."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to stay out of prison."

"Nobody talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul is not sure of their existence."

"The success of a government rests on the consent of the governed."

"Politics without morality is tyranny."

"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps facing each other."

"Competition has replaced feudalism; the bourgeoisie has simplified class antagonisms."

"To imagine that the peasants can ever be revolutionaries is absurd."

"A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of communism."

"True democracy can only exist where the working class rules."

"The bourgeoisie produces a world after its own image."

"Society as a whole becomes increasingly polarized into two great camps."

"The state is the march of God through the world."

"Custom and morality alone do not constitute the nature of the state."

"The worth of the state is the worth of the individuals who compose it."

"Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party interests are the source of all factions."

"There is no such thing as a perfect government, yet many styles of government can be bearable."

"That politics may be reduced to a science, is no very great compliment to the science."

"The march of God in the world is what constitutes the State."

"The State is the realization of ethical life."

"The State is not a means to an end but an end in itself."

"He is a Radical and the philosopher of Radicalism; I am a Liberal and a believer in the principles of constitutional government."

"As long as men are what they now are, no legislation will be a sufficient means of stopping the increase of pauperism."

"All the political apparatus of the state and government is a machine for keeping the many in subjection to the few."

"To assume that one can change laws without changing the character of the people is to assume the impossible."

"Politics without morality is merely the exercise of power."

"The advancement of human freedom requires the establishment of just laws."

"The love of country must be balanced by respect for universal human rights."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's windows from being broken; but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."