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Politics Quotes by Frank Zappa
- I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons…
- All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.
- Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
- Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.
- Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is…
- Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses…
- Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither…
- Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.
- The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.
- The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
- Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
- Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
- A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
- A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license…
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — 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
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle