Politics Quotes

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Joseph Sobran

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

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 Ameringe

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

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".

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.

H. L. Mencken