Top 500 Politics Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Justice is the one thing you should always find.”

— Toby Keith

452. “Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”

— Milton Friedman

453. “All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

454. “Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.”

— Thorstein Veblen

455. “Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.”

— Don Henley

456. “It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

457. “A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.”

— Walter Bagehot

458. “There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.”

— Stephen Hawking

459. “Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.”

— Calvin Coolidge

460. “In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.”

— Aberjhani

461. “I’ve told you before and I’ll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

462. “Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.”

— Soong May-ling

463. “A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’”

— William F. Buckley Jr.

464. “It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

465. “Actor of the low IQ, let’s hear your view.”

— Jethro Tull

466. “Let me tell you how it will be. There’s one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I’m the taxman.”

— George Harrison

467. “Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.”

— Robert Nozick

468. “All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.”

— George F. Will

469. “The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.”

— Stanley Baldwin

470. “In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.”

— Hillary Clinton

471. “Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.”

— Henry Kissinger

472. “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”

— Benito Mussolini

473. “Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.”

— Don Henley

474. “The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.”

— Tiffany Madison

475. “Life is politics, basically, but you don’t just go to a gallery and put the words ‘art’ and ‘politics’ on the wall.”

— Luc Tuymans

476. “When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

477. “Imperialism is da woist thing I ever hoid!”

— Karl Marx

478. “I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.”

— Paul Wellstone

479. “Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.”

— Steve Winwood

480. “Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.”

— Penn Jillette

481. “When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

482. “The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.”

— Frank Zappa

483. “The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.”

— Rachel Maddow

484. “We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.”

— Chetan Bhagat

485. “Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.”

— Ronald Reagan

486. “Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.”

— Emmeline Pankhurst

487. “It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.”

— Tacitus

488. “The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.”

— Thomas Jefferson

489. “It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.”

— John Pilger

490. “Revolutions are always verbose.”

— Leon Trotsky

491. “Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.”

— Arvind Kejriwal

492. “In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.”

— George Orwell

493. “I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”

— Charles de Gaulle

494. “We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?”

— Waylon Jennings

495. “You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.”

— Harry S. Truman

496. “The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.”

— Blaise Pascal

497. “It’s not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It’s that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.”

— Godfrey Reggio

498. “Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.”

— Clement Attlee

499. “Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.”

— William Ewart Gladstone

500. “Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.”

— W.H. Auden