Top 500 Politics Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Socialism is a dead horse.”

— Thorstein Veblen

352. “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

353. “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

354. “The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”

— Karl Marx

355. “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

356. “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

357. “Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.”

— Roger Hodgson

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— John Adams

360. “God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong.”

— Jethro Tull

361. “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

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

— Howard Zinn

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

— Mark Twain

364. “Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.”

— Tupac Shakur

365. “How right the working classes are in their “materialism.” How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!”

— George Orwell

366. “To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Gustave Flaubert

368. “Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.”

— Robert Cray

369. “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

— James Madison

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

— Glenn Reynolds

371. “Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

372. “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

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

— Ambrose Bierce

374. “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

375. “Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.”

— Marya Mannes

376. “The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.”

— Leon Trotsky

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

— Richard M. Nixon

378. “Politics is applied biology.”

— Ernst Haeckel

379. “Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.”

— Morton Blackwell

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

— Joe Biden

381. “If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.”

— Barbara Jordan

382. “I’m sayin’, why spend mine when I can spend yours?”

— Lil' Kim

383. “Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.”

— Calvin Coolidge

384. “The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.”

— Noah Levine

385. “I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.”

— Warren Buffett

386. “Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.”

— Martha Gellhorn

387. “In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.”

— Chinua Achebe

388. “Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.”

— Leon Trotsky

389. “It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

390. “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

391. “I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”

— Thomas Jefferson

392. “Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

393. “I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.”

— Tom Clancy

394. “A city’s only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”

— Alastair Reynolds

395. “Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

396. “The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.”

— Bob Dylan

397. “Every society has the criminals it deserves.”

— Emma Goldman

398. “Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.”

— W.H. Auden

399. “There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

400. “Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.”

— Justinian I