Politics Quotes
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.Mao Tse - Tung
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.Edward De Bono
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.Julius Henry Marx
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.Jacob Chanowski
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.Napoleon Bonaparte
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.James Barrett Scotty Reston
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.Roy Hattersley
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.Peggy Noonan
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.Mahatma Gandhi
About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste.Randolph Silliman Bourne
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.Ronald Reagan
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - - And hence clamorous to be led to safety - - By menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.Henry Louis Mencken
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those.Gilbert Highet
Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.George Jean Nathan
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.Henry Kissinge
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Lester B. Pearson
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.Lyndon B. Johnson
War is a continuation of politics by other means.Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".
It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.Herbert Clark Hoove
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.G. M. Trevelyan
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.Isaac Asimov
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.Alfred E. Newman
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.Charles De Gaulle
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.John Berge
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.John George Diefenbake
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.R. A. Butle
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.Frank Herbert, Dune
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.Francois Arouet
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.Napoleon Bonaparte
Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.Lucille Ball
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
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.Theodore Roosevelt
