Quotes
Quotes about Politics
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance.
Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
History is past politics; and politics present history.
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry.
There are no true friends in politics.
Finality is not the language of politics.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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 more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
