politics quotes
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Practical politics consists in ignoring the facts.
I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.
Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
To err is human; to blame it on the other party is politics.
Entitlement spendingthe politics of greed wrapped in the language of love.
It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.
So we have the Philistine of genius in religionLuther; the Philistine of genius in politicsCromwell; the Philistine of genius in literatureBunyan.
You will never get on in politics, my dear, with that hair.
If Conservative Backbench MPs wanttoget on inpolitics they will have to find a foothold in the narrow strip of land that lies between sycophancy and rebellion.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motives. Never complain and never explain.
Politics is a blood sport.
Politics is not an exact science.
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.
No science is immuneto the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Politics is the art of the possible. See Galbraith 343:94.
South Africa, renowned both far and wide For politics and little else besides.
La politique et le sort des hommes sont forme s par des hommes sans ide al et sans grandeur. Ceux qui ont une grandeur en eux ne font pas de politique. Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
Dogs make you walk. Politics make you think.Only boredom makes you old.
The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcasses of old policies.
The view of history that we get through the kitchen window is a more gentle view, not of war and politics, but of familyand communityand sharing.
There are no true friends in politics.We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Safe is spelled D-U-L-L. Politics has got to be a fun activity.
Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.
If something makes you cry, you have to do something about it.That'sthe difference betweenpolitics and guilt.
Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.
Ireland is one of the few countriesperhaps the lastwhere the boundaries between politics and art have never been fixed.
One golden rule for people who want to get on in politics is to keep their traps shut in August.
Politics is too important to be left to the politicians.
This is about more than our politics and our laws. This is about who we are, how we carry ourselves.
Politics are much discussed, so are banks, so is cotton. Quiet peopleavoid the question of the Presidencythe great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly theacrimonyof the last election is over, the next one begins.
Thepractice of politicsintheEast may be defined byone worddissimulation.
It seems to me a barren thing this Conservatisman unhappy cross-breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.
I am neither a Whig nor aTory. My politics are described in one word, and that word is England.
Finality is not the language of politics.
England is unrivalled for two thingssport and politics.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian; and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchillwhether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.
There is more politics in football than in politics.
History is past politics, and politics is present history.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. See Butler176:34.
There are times in politics whenyou must be on theright side and lose.
A naked moment in politics.
We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
and poets should stay out of politics or become monsters I have become monsterous with politics.
I have the most reliable friend that you can have in American politicsready money.
He is a kind of fourth estate in the politics of the country.
All the contact I have had with politicshas left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons.
You can't adopt politics as a profession and hope to remain honest.
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics.It is at once our sword and our shield.
A playful moderation in politics is just as absurd as a remonstrative whisper to a mob.
Politics are now nothing morethanmeans of rising inthe world.
To me politics is like one of those annoying and potentially dangerous, but generally just painful, chronic diseases that you just have to put up with all your life if you happen to have contracted it. Politics is like having diabetes.
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
The sooner the Crown Colony system is removed from thesphere of practical politicsand put underaglasscase in the South Kensington Museum, labelled 'Extinct', the better for everyone.
L'amour e tait toujours me" le aux affaires et les affaires a' l'amour. Love has always mixed with politics and politics with love.
In Singapore you don't volunteer to go into politicsyou are invited to enter.
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
Then down came the lidthe day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo.World-politics stepped in, and a war was started whichhasnot ended yet: 'a war to end war'.But it merely ended art. It did not end war.
The businessman dealing with a large political question is reallya painfulsight.It doesseemtomethat businessmen, with a fewexceptions, are worse when theycometo deal with politics than men of any other class.
Being inpoliticsislikebeing a football coach.Youhaveto be smart enough to know the game and stupid enough to think it is important.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Politics is war without bloodshed; war is politics with bloodshed.
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Thus you see, Sir, that these people are not so unpolished as we represent them.'Tis true, their magnificence is of a different taste from ours, and perhaps of a better. I am almost of opinion, they have a right notion of life. They consume it in music, gardens, wine, and delicate eating, while we are tormenting our brains with some scheme of politics, or studying some sciencetowhichwe canneverattain, or, if we do, cannot persuade other people to set that value upon it we do ourselves We die or grow old before we can reap the fruit of our labours.Considering what short-lived weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
All political lives, unless they are cut off in mid-stream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
Politics is just like show businessa hell of an opening, you coast for a while, you have a hell of a closing.
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.
Whena mangoesinforpolitics over here, hehasnotime to labour, and any man that labours has no time to fool with politics.Over there, politics is an obligation; over here it's a business.
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and dramaridicule and reproachpleading and persuasion.
La politique au milieu des inte re" ts d'imagination, c'est un coup de pistolet au milieu d'un concert. Politics mixed with the imagination is like a shot fired in the middle of a concert.
The best politics isgood government.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
The politics of numbers.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It is between two horrible shades of grey.
C'est un axiome de la science politique aux EŁ tats-Unis, que le seul moyen de neutraliser les effets des journaux est d'en multiplier le nombre. It isanaxiomof politicsinthe United States, thatthe only means of neutralising the effects of newspapers is to increase their number.
La presse exerce encore un immense pouvoir en Ame rique. Elle fait circuler la vie politique dans toutes les portions de ce vaste territoire. C'est elle dont l'½il toujours ouvert met sans cesse a' nu les secrets ressorts de la politique, et force les hommes publics a' venir tour a' tour compara|"tre devant le tribunal de l'opinion. C'est elle qui rallie les inte re" ts autour de certaines doctrines et formule le symbole des partis; c'est par elle que ceux-ci se parlent sans se voir, s'entendent sans e" tre mis en contact. The presshas enormous power in America.It isthe press that circulates political life through all parts of this vast territory. Its eye is always open, and making known the secret springs of politics, thus forcing public men to appear before the tribunal of public opinion. It is the press which rallies the interests of the community round certain principles and forms the creed of different parties. Through the press these parties can speak to each other without seeing each other, can listenwithout meeting.
Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig on Sunday.
Being criticizedhe never did get it through his head that that's what politics is all about.
La politique est l'art d'empe" cher les gens de se me" ler de ce qui les regarde. Politics istheart of preventing people fromtaking part in affairs which concern them.
Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.
Our course in the House of Lords ought to be very firm and uncompromising but moderatean example of what has since been called the politics of the extreme centre.
Eisenhower hasa magic in American politics that is peculiarly his: he makes people happy.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so onand found that none ofthesefinally satisfy, or permanently wearwhat remains? Nature remains.
A week is a long time in politics.
'Beauty' is a currency like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in theWest it isthe last, best belief systemthat keeps male domination intact.
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