Politics Quotes by Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

— Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

— Voltaire

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

— Voltaire

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

— Voltaire

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

— Voltaire

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

— Voltaire

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

— Voltaire

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

— Voltaire

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the…

— Voltaire

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to…

— Voltaire

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give…

— Voltaire

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

— Voltaire

“Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.”

— Voltaire

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

— Voltaire

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

— Voltaire

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a…

— Voltaire

The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or…

— Voltaire

“Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows…

— Voltaire

“That is why all romantics are anti-Voltairean, even Michelet, whose political fervor ought to have made him stand aligned with Voltaire; and…

— Voltaire