Politics Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

— Gary Johnson

“Make government the herder of the flock, and the herder will cull the undesirable sheep.”

— A.E. Samaan

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various…

— Bertrand Russell

“The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Why is it that we all say we hate our hypocritical politicians being controlled by special interests groups, and every election...we vote them in…

— Colleen Hitchcock

“If leaders exploit public fears to herd people in directions they might not otherwise choose, then fear itself can quickly become a self-perpetuating and…

— Al Gore

“Such is the psychology of crowds that the majority will follow whoever appeared to be in power...”

— Miklós Bánffy

“People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent”

— Halldór Laxness

If you construct political narratives around the psychodramas of politicians, even when they don't invite it, you open the way for those who can…

— George Monbiot

“the instinct of democracy is like the instinct of one woman, wild but quite right”

— G.K. Chesterton

How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows…

— Aleister Crowley

“Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage (From LONE WOLF, p.50)”

— Len Webster