Top 500 Politics Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.”

— Tacitus

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Don Henley

154. “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.

155. “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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

157. “Eating is an agricultural act.”

— Wendell Berry

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

— Marilyn Manson

159. “The personal is political.”

— Shulamith Firestone

160. “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

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Narendra Modi

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

— John Harington

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

— Dave Mason

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

— Naomi Klein

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Tony Benn

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

— Bill Maher

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

— Plato

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173. “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

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174. “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

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

— Frank Herbert

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

— Paul Krugman

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

— George Eliot

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

— A. J. P. Taylor

179. “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

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

— James Baldwin

181. “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

182. “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

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

— Karl Marx

184. “Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Joseph de Maistre

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

— Bob Dylan

187. “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

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Tacitus

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

— José Martí

191. “All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.”

— Samuel Adams

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

— Sting

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

— Adam Smith

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

— George Orwell

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195. “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

196. “Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Edwin Starr

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Abraham Lincoln