Politics Quotes
6200 quotes by 2822 authors
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very…
— 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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
— Aristophanes
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
— Aristotle
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is…
— Aristotle
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider…
— Aristotle
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— 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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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
— Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike…
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance…
— 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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Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics…
— David Attenborough
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
— Marcus Aurelius
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First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more…
— John Avlon
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