Top 500 Politics Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.”

— Otto von Bismarck

202. “The creator’s concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite’s concern is the conquest of men.”

— Ayn Rand

203. “Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.”

— John Rawls

204. “Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”

— Alan Moore

205. “All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Samuel Adams

207. “The government bugged the men’s room in the local disco lounge.”

— Don Henley

208. “Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody’s plan.”

— Bob Dylan

209. “Being free is a state of mind.”

— Lenny Kravitz

210. “If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.”

— John Boyd Orr

211. “Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.”

— Jacob Appelbaum

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

— Albert Einstein

213. “It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.”

— Charles de Gaulle

214. “That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything.”

— Noam Chomsky

215. “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

— Adam Smith

216. “Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.”

— Sting

217. “Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.”

— Calvin Coolidge

218. “Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.”

— Milan Kundera

219. “The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.”

— Winston Churchill

220. “People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.”

— Noam Chomsky

221. “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

— George Orwell

222. “It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”

— Voltaire

223. “The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”

— Otto von Bismarck

224. “The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.”

— Johnny Cash

225. “How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

— Ronald Reagan

226. “Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?”

— George Washington

227. “There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

228. “I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.”

— Billy Graham

229. “First you win the argument, then you win the vote.”

— Margaret Thatcher

230. “That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.”

— Noam Chomsky

231. “Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.”

— Albert Camus

232. “Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.”

— Tupac Shakur

233. “Political power without economic power is sterile.”

— Louis O. Kelso

234. “When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as ‘enemies,’ it’s time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”

— Molly Ivins

235. “Never underestimate the ego of a politician.”

— Dan Brown

236. “The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.”

— Steve Jobs

237. “Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence...”

— Hillary Clinton

238. “You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

239. “The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”

— Will Rogers

240. “Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.”

— Albert Camus

241. “The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.”

— Bernie Sanders

242. “To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”

— Hubert H. Humphrey

243. “Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.”

— Voltaire

244. “There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men. The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.”

— Adrienne Rich

245. “What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

246. “Never judge a country by its politicians.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

247. “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer.”

— Barack Obama

248. “Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”

— Ludwig von Mises

249. “Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.”

— Aristotle

250. “I’m just a socialist at heart.”

— Ted Turner