“Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.”
Quotes about politics
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“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.”
“I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.”
“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”
“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”
“In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.”
“I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.”
“Half a truth is better than no politics.”
“Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.”
“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.”
“By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.”
“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
“We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.”
“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”
“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.”
“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”
“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.”
“Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”
“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”
“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
“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.”