Top 500 Politics Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”

— Victor Hugo

102. “Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”

— Edward Abbey

103. “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

104. “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

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— George Strait

107. “Every socialist is a disguised dictator.”

— Ludwig von Mises

108. “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

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

— Tony Benn

110. “Some leaders are born women.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Buddha

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Frank Zappa

114. “Total paranoia is just total awareness.”

— Charles Manson

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

— The Notorious B.I.G.

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

— Thomas Mann

117. “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

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

— A. Powell Davies

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Al Gore

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Aristotle

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

— Ronald Reagan

124. “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

125. “Never wound a snake; kill it.”

— Harriet Tubman

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

— Max Stirner

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

131. “Freedom is participation in power.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

135. “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

136. “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

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

— Warren Buffett

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Tacitus

141. “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.

142. “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

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Don Henley

146. “The personal is political.”

— Shulamith Firestone

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Narendra Modi

150. “We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.”

— Gore Vidal