Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

Your enemy is not in North Korea or Syria, it is your own corporate controlled government.

You're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is supposed to be for everyone. And that's why I'm a Democrat.

You’re not an artist, you’re not a scientist, you’re not an intellectual. All that’s left to you is politics.

Your fathers have lived, died, and have done their work, and have done much of it well. You live and must die, and you must do your work. You have no right to enjoy a child’s share in the labor of your fathers, unless your children are to be blest by your labors. You have no right to wear out and waste the hard-earned fame of your fathers to cover your indolence. Sydney Smith tells us that men seldom eulogize the wisdom and virtues of their fathers, but to excuse some folly or wickedness of their own.

Your food will converge with my food Your clothes will stitch with my clothes Your culture will merge with my culture We'll create something beautiful Something new We'll call it our culture

Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......

Your moral values & ability to rationalize; not your religious beliefs or political affiliations define what you should stand for in society.

Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.

Your politics are so far right, They're wrong.

Your power is secret, and in secret it is total. But to use your power you must touch the world. To touch you must be touched, to be touched is to be seen, to be seen is to be known. To be known is to perish. Act subtly, lest you diminish.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.

You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.

You seldom learn the names of the truly wealthy and powerful. You see only their spokesmen. The political arena makes a few exceptions to this but does not reveal the full power structure.

Youth and skill will win out every time over age and treachery. True or false? False. Even the best and brightest are regularly eaten alive by politics, intrigue, and plotting.

Youths are the hope of today, and the joy of tomorrow.

You try to separate yourselves from history. You pretend its ugliness could never happen where you are. But it can...and it does, when normal people, en mass, allow worse and worse shit to go down because either they're too ignorant to understand or they're being corrupted by the powers that control the country. That's how this starts, that's how it gets too far. PLEASE see the signs. Please. This is human nature...to miss the boat out of fear or anger about others "taking what's ours" and so we allow (or cheer on) heinousness one step at a time until, before you know it, you're living in a nightmare of epic proportions and history sees you as the villain you became. DON'T BECOME A VILLAIN. BE THE VOICE THAT BREAKS THE INSANITY OPEN.

You’ve already seen the shift of the media to blindly follow the dictates of the government.

You will always end up in frustration whenever you try to produce outside your purpose.

You will only be as good, as changing, as imaginative as those who control you and those who would presume that society will benefit only by their dictates at the expense of the freedoms of all the others.

90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.

A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

A good man who did a bad thing.

A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

[Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom.