“Liberal - a power worshipper without power.”
More from George Orwell on Politics
“We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.”
“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”
“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.”
Others on Politics
Otto von Bismarck
9 quotes“Politics is the art of the possible.”
H. L. Mencken
6 quotes“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
Ronald Reagan
6 quotes“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
Charles de Gaulle
6 quotes“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
Tocqueville
5 quotes“In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to p...”
Henry Adams
4 quotes“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Margaret Thatcher
4 quotes“What Britain needs is an iron lady.”
FDR
3 quotes“Presidents are selected, not elected.”
Mahatma Gandhi
2 quotes“I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend i...”
John le Carré
2 quotes“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to d...”
Laurence Peter
2 quotes“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean...”
Ken Follett
2 quotes“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”