Top 500 Politics Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— Don Henley

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

— Samuel Adams

205. “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

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

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Jacob Appelbaum

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

— Sting

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

— Albert Einstein

211. “Being free is a state of mind.”

— Lenny Kravitz

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

— Charles de Gaulle

213. “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

214. “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

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

— John Boyd Orr

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

— Bob Dylan

217. “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

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Voltaire

220. “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

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

— Johnny Cash

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

— George Washington

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

— Margaret Thatcher

224. “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

225. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

227. “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

228. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Louis O. Kelso

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

— Otto von Bismarck

232. “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

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

— Steve Jobs

234. “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

235. “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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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

— Hillary Clinton

239. “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

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

— Voltaire

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

— Dan Brown

243. “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

244. “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

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

— Will Rogers

246. “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

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

248. “Have pity on a dinosaur.”

— Hank Williams, Jr.

249. “No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.”

— John Adams

250. “Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower