Top 500 Politics Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Treason doth never prosper. What’s the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.”

— John Harington

152. “Don’t get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.”

— Bill Maher

153. “Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.”

— Marilyn Manson

154. “What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.”

— John Diefenbaker

155. “For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.”

— Alexander Pope

156. “You know, comrade Pachman, I don’t enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

157. “The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction.”

— Tony Benn

158. “Eating is an agricultural act.”

— Wendell Berry

159. “Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.”

— Naomi Klein

160. “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

— Plato

161. “There ain’t no good guys, there ain’t no bad guys, there’s only you and me, and we just disagree.”

— Dave Mason

162. “Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”

— John F. Kennedy

163. “Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.”

— Michel Foucault

164. “No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

165. “Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

166. “It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”

— Hubert H. Humphrey

167. “I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

— Abraham Lincoln

168. “Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely – and the right to be heard.”

— Hillary Clinton

169. “Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.”

— James Baldwin

170. “If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.”

— Tony Benn

171. “Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”

— Karl Marx

172. “Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.”

— Winston Churchill

173. “Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

— Paul Krugman

174. “The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.”

— William James

175. “Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.”

— George Eliot

176. “To change masters is not to be free.”

— José Martí

177. “How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?”

— Bob Dylan

178. “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

— Adam Smith

179. “It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling...”

— V.S. Naipaul

180. “Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”

— Edward Abbey

181. “Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.”

— Frank Herbert

182. “Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.”

— Indira Gandhi

183. “What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”

— Abraham Lincoln

184. “Every country has the government it deserves.”

— Joseph de Maistre

185. “The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.”

— Lenny Bruce

186. “Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

187. “I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.”

— Samuel Johnson

188. “In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one’s head.”

— Marie Antoinette

189. “In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

— Toni Morrison

190. “There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.”

— Sting

191. “My morals went when the president got oral.”

— Eminem

192. “My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.”

— Liev Schreiber

193. “War is the enemy of all mankind.”

— Edwin Starr

194. “The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”

— George Orwell

195. “Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.”

— Suzy Kassem

196. “To rule is easy, to govern difficult.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

197. “Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.”

— Tacitus

198. “Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

199. “Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.”

— Isaac Asimov

200. “Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.”

— George Orwell