Politics Quotes - page 6

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. (Hannah Arendt)
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. View quote
John Avlon
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. View quote
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no gambling like politics. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
In politics nothing is contemptible. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures. (Robin Williams)
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge. View quote
Tony Blair
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. View quote
Naomi Klein
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. So maybe he owes all of us an apology... View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit. View quote
Timothy Zahn
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. View quote
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics – it's the only way in which to make them important. View quote
Sean O`Casey
It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life. (Jordan Peele)
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages. View quote
Elie Ducommun
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course. View quote
Michael Dobbs