Top 500 Politics Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.”

— Marilyn Manson

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

— George Harrison

303. “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

304. “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

305. “We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Queen Victoria

307. “If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.”

— Edward Bellamy

308. “Socialism is a dead horse.”

— Thorstein Veblen

309. “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

310. “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

311. “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

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

— Suzy Kassem

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

— Henry Spencer

314. “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

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Jim Wallis

317. “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

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

— Alan Jackson

319. “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

320. “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

321. “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

322. “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

323. “The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.”

— Richelle Mead

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

325. “Democracy can survive anything except Democrats.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

326. “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

327. “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

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

— Frank Zappa

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

— Eugene McCarthy

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— John Adams

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

— Mark Twain

333. “The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.”

— Petronius Arbiter

334. “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

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

— Glenn Reynolds

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

— Howard Zinn

337. “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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

339. “No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”

— Edward R. Murrow

340. “But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common...”

— Joe Biden

341. “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

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

— Dan Quayle

343. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

345. “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

346. “Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.”

— Leon Trotsky

347. “Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”

— Ambrose Bierce

348. “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

349. “Frankly, sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you.”

— Jon Corzine

350. “Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.”

— Anna Funder