Top 500 Politics Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

302. “A week is a long time in politics.”

— Harold Wilson

303. “They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.”

— Herman Melville

304. “The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.”

— Marilyn Manson

305. “He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.”

— Queen Victoria

306. “We believe in Sarva Pantha Sambhav. We believe ’the truth is one, there are ways to reach it.”

— Narendra Modi

307. “As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

308. “Democracy can survive anything except Democrats.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

309. “Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.”

— Malcolm X

310. “Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.”

— Bob Dylan

311. “To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.”

— Henry Spencer

312. “It’s easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.”

— George Harrison

313. “Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block the hall.”

— Bob Dylan

314. “A people free to choose will always choose peace.”

— Ronald Reagan

315. “I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles...”

— Alan Jackson

316. “Socialism is a dead horse.”

— Thorstein Veblen

317. “A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”

— John Stuart Mill

318. “Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.”

— Patrick Lencioni

319. “In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.”

— David Foster Wallace

320. “Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

321. “The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

322. “Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies.”

— Suzy Kassem

323. “Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.”

— Frank Zappa

324. “Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.”

— John F. Kennedy

325. “Faith reminds us that change is always possible.”

— Jim Wallis

326. “The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it’s decreed the people rule.”

— Patti Smith

327. “One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.”

— Paulo Freire

328. “Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”

— John Quincy Adams

329. “One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.”

— Hannah Arendt

330. “If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

331. “At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can’t take anything, you won’t get anything, and if you can’t hold anything, you won’t keep anything. And you can’t take anything without organization.”

— A. Philip Randolph

332. “These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.”

— Anthony de Mello

333. “It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.”

— John Adams

334. “As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”

— John Dewey

335. “The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.”

— Eugene McCarthy

336. “If God is on our side, he’ll stop the next war.”

— Bob Dylan

337. “Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.”

— Winston Churchill

338. “All that we got here is American made. It’s a little bit cheesy, but it’s nicely displayed.”

— Frank Zappa

339. “Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.”

— Mark Twain

340. “In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin’s Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.”

— Garry Kasparov

341. “Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They’re bound to be deeply confused, at best.”

— Glenn Reynolds

342. “Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.”

— Howard Zinn

343. “A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

344. “The respect that I have got is not for Narendra Modi or the PM of India. It is respect for the people of India.”

— Narendra Modi

345. “You have a part-time job and that’s better to no job at all.”

— Dan Quayle

346. “He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”

— William Blake

347. “By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”

— Albert Camus

348. “Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.”

— Winston Churchill

349. “The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.”

— Gustave Flaubert

350. “Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”

— Richard M. Nixon