Politics Quotes

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program" "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war." "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death" "The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny" "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors" "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" "Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil." "Racism is not dead, but it is on life support kept alive by politicians, race hustlers, and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as racists" "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own." "The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself" "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness" "In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile" "Politics is the art of controlling your environment" "The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs" "There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others." "To some degree, it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public." "We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security" "All plans of government which suppose great reformation in the manners of mankind are plainly imaginary" "In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics"