Politics Quote by David Gemmell Download Open image ““In any broth, the scum [politicians] always rises to the top.”” — David Gemmell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Politics
“Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“A politician's Job they say is very high, for he has choose who has to go out and die.” — Black Sabbath Copy Share Image
“In a world devoid of towering political leaders, we seem to have become experts at growing idiots & elevating them to important positions.” — Mamur Mustapha Copy Share Image
“We live in a society that is governed by corrupt corporate controlled scumbags.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, The knowledge alone is not enough to win the round. To win, you should be a good politician as well!” — Hadas Moosazadeh, Author Copy Share Image
“There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher.” — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“In politics, victory goes to those with cunning, mettle and deviousness, not those who have facts and principles on their side.” — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and you are no different from any other race. Family? Has Priam not killed wayward sons? When a king dies do his sons not go to war with one another to succeed him? Men speak of how… — David Gemmell Copy Share
Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished,… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most well-known of these is, of course, I love you. But by far the most deadly is, if only. For these two words can strip a man's strength, his courage and his confidence. They become the… — David Gemmell Copy Share
“Listen...You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing;… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation. 2. Man-made wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. 3. Exposure to man-made electricity. 4. Eclipsing of the Sun by the International Space Station (ISS), satellites, airplanes and jet aircraft contrails (chemtrails). 5. Eating food forced grown using… — Steven Magee Copy Share
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share