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Politics Quotes



"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."


"What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter."


"There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators, but we must not forget that the religion is still out there."



"The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible."


"Imperialism means raping other nations, imperialist means rapist!"


"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting."


"The USA government sure do like their propaganda feeds! Unfortunately, too much propaganda does create the scenario where no one believes anything that they say. It's just like Pinocchio."


"The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy-then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece."


"You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore you and we choose to exercise this right."


"Only the most ingeniously optimistic, the most wilfully blind to the facts of history and psychology, can believe that paper guarantees of liberty - guarantees wholly unsupported by the realities of political and economic power - will be scrupulously respected by those who have known only the facts of governmental omnipotence on the one hand and, on the other, of mass dependence upon, and consequently subservience to, the state and its representatives."



"We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"



"The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means."


"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."


"The rights we have as free individuals is the right to choose as we please."


"Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people."



"If Governments Promote The Principles Of The Kingdom, Then We Will See An Established Society."


"In the rough-and-tumble play of politics, dog-whistle messages are copiously dispatched over the heads of the grassroots people that cannot see the writing on the wall and have to remain in the cold, like dumb puppets on a string. ['What after bowling alone?']"


"The highest possible form of treason," said Minton," is to say that Americans aren't loved wherever they go, whatever they do. Claire tried to make the point that American foreign policy should recognize hate rather than imagine love."


"And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there."


"If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters - the Adivasis and the Dalits. And in the meantime, the zamindars are laying the oil pipelines and selling both parties weapons."


"Stupid crowds are the greatest wealth of the crook politicians!"


"Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult."


"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition."


"The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption."


"One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator from New York is surely that she is a known quantity who has already been in the White House purely as the result of a relationship with a man, and not at all a quixotic outsider who represents the aspirations of an 'out' group, let alone a whole sex or gender."


"They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) " not only are they better, but they have a "better time, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can't bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated " it seems to me just to stink of lies."



"A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts."


"I wish politicians the world over would stop claiming credit for economic growth that happens despite them, not because of them. Grow up..."



"If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions."


"Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."


"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues."


"Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge."


"It is unclear if corporate governments are truly the dunces of human health or if they are just faking it in order to propagate a biologically toxic agenda on an unsuspecting global population."



"One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking."


"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."



"Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell! They might reply: "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions."
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