Politics Quotes

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

Bertrand Russell

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance."

Karl Popper

"Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep."

Isaiah Berlin

"Politics is more difficult than physics."

Albert Einstein

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever."

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

G. K. Chesterton

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

G. K. Chesterton

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

Will Durant

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."

Arnold Toynbee

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

Reinhold Niebuhr

"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."

Walter Lippmann

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim."

Elie Wiesel

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

Desmond Tutu

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart."

Václav Havel

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

Kofi Annan

"The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell."

Dag Hammarskjöld

"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home."

"Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors."

Abigail Adams

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

"The administration of government, like a guardianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust."

Cicero

"We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all."

Pericles