(310 quotes found)
“If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels
“It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.”
Aristotle
“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
Plato
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
Winston Churchill
“Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.”
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other”
Oscar Ameringer
“Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.”
Dennis Prager
“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
Ronald Reagan
