141 quotes
“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
— Noam Chomsky
"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire..."
— James Madison
"Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
— Edmund Burke
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
— Charles de Gaulle
"The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform."
— Tocqueville
"The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope."
— Hillary Clinton
"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right."
— William Butler
"There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel."
— Lenin
"Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people."
— Victor Hugo
"The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism."
— Thomas Szasz
"Everything is politics."
— Thomas Mann
"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
— Ronald Reagan
"Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program."
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
"Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
— Pericles