Politics Quotes

War is the continuation of politics by other means.
General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".
Albert einstein - yes, we have to divide up our time like that,...
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".
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
Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.
Edward De Bono
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
Mao tse - tung - politics is war without bloodshed while war is...
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
George Orwell
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Julius Henry Marx
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
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
My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.
Y. Yakigawa
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
Politics is no exact science.
Otto von Bismark
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Brooks Adams
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 is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry Goldwate
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 skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn
I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel Archard
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
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Will Rogers
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinge
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle
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
The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right