Political Quotes
7295 Political quotes by 3342 unique authors
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
— Hannah Arendt
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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
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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
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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
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
— Aristophanes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
— Aristotle
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
— Aristotle
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
— Aristotle
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Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
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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
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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
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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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
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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
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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
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I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
— Chester A. Arthur
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
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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
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
— Margaret Atwood
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
— Dean Acheson
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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
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Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
— Dean Acheson
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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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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