Political Quotes

7295 Political quotes by 3342 unique authors

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of… — Hannah Arendt
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite… — Hannah Arendt
Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they… — Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. — Aristotle
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. — Richard Armour
We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is… — Julian Assange
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. — Margaret Atwood
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. — Marcus Aurelius
A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid… — John Avlon

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