Politics Quotes

"The art of government is the organization of idolatry."

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."

"In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from one side to the other, thinking they will be more comfortable."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made."

John Godfrey Saxe

"Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."

Ambrose Bierce

"It is much safer to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."

"In the happiness of his subjects lies the king's happiness; in their welfare his welfare. He shall not consider as good only that which pleases him but treat as beneficial to him whatever pleases his subjects."

Chanakya

"Seven social sins: Politics without principle, Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice."

"Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a much more courageous man than a politician who defies Government."

B. R. Ambedkar

"However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."

Thomas Jefferson

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

Thomas Jefferson

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

James Madison

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

James Madison

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

John Kenneth Galbraith

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely."

"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."

Christian Nestell Bovee

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

Robert Louis Stevenson