Top 500 Politics Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”

— Alain Badiou

452. “Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”

— Jean Baudrillard

453. “Hell is full of high court judges.”

— Sting

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. “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

456. “Revolutions are always verbose.”

— Leon Trotsky

457. “They wanted me to be a Washington.”

— Napoleon

458. “A man who tells you to follow him, will turn his followers into his company. While a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.”

— Suzy Kassem

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

— Blaise Pascal

460. “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

461. “Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.”

— James Brown

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

— Milton Friedman

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

— William F. Buckley Jr.

464. “Finality is not the language of politics.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Jethro Tull

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

— Benito Mussolini

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

— Don Henley

468. “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Calvin Coolidge

470. “I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.”

— Tom Clancy

471. “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

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

— Aberjhani

473. “The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

474. “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

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

— Don Henley

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

— Karl Marx

477. “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

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

— Walter Bagehot

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

— George F. Will

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

— George Harrison

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

— Hillary Clinton

482. “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

483. “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

484. “Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.”

— Alasdair MacIntyre

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

— Stanley Baldwin

486. “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

487. “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

488. “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

489. “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

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

491. “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

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

— Tacitus

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

494. “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

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

— Paul Wellstone

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

— Steve Winwood

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

— Arvind Kejriwal

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

— Frank Zappa

499. “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

500. “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