Top 500 Politics Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.”

— Plato

102. “For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”

— Noam Chomsky

103. “I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.”

— Tony Benn

104. “All rising to great places is by a winding stair.”

— Buddha

105. “Some leaders are born women.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

106. “Total paranoia is just total awareness.”

— Charles Manson

107. “Every socialist is a disguised dictator.”

— Ludwig von Mises

108. “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”

— Thomas Jefferson

109. “I ain’t rich, but Lord I’m free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I’ll be.”

— George Strait

110. “Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.”

— Bob Dylan

111. “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

112. “Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

113. “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”

— Thomas Mann

114. “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”

— Karl Marx

115. “The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.”

— A. Powell Davies

116. “Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

117. “We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”

— Otto von Bismarck

118. “That we can be e pluribus Unum – out of one, many.”

— Al Gore

119. “Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.”

— Frank Zappa

120. “Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.”

— Aristotle

121. “I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”

— Ronald Reagan

122. “If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.”

— Ronald Reagan

123. “Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you’ll still ‘beat the pack.’”

— Gerald R. Ford

124. “I’m an idealist without illusions.”

— John F. Kennedy

125. “The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.”

— Max Stirner

126. “Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.”

— Jimmy Carter

127. “There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.””

— Fulton J. Sheen

128. “Freedom is participation in power.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

129. “Never wound a snake; kill it.”

— Harriet Tubman

130. “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

— Frederick Douglass

131. “The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

132. “It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.”

— Abraham Lincoln

133. “Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

134. “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

— Warren Buffett

135. “Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.”

— Tacitus

136. “You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.”

— Abraham Lincoln

137. “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”

— Frank Herbert

138. “Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean – power over people, power to the State.”

— Margaret Thatcher

139. “I’m on my knees begging, please come and save me.”

— Tupac Shakur

140. “It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”

— Jonathan Swift

141. “The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”

— Karl Marx

142. “There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.”

— Don Henley

143. “Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

144. “The personal is political.”

— Shulamith Firestone

145. “I’m not cheap, you understand, I’m just a cut price person in a low budget land.”

— Ray Davies

146. “Vote bank politics has put the future of our youth in darkness.”

— Narendra Modi

147. “There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.”

— Will Rogers

148. “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

— Ronald Reagan

149. “One is only poor, only if they choose to be.”

— Dolly Parton

150. “Treason doth never prosper. What’s the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.”

— John Harington