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Politics Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
- Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and…
- There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition…
- The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to…
- Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the…
- The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the…
- The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
- The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the…
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