Politics Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is…

— Sophocles

“A politician has positions. A statesman has convictions, and pledges his life, fortune, and sacred honor to defend and advance them. Unfortunately, the other…

— Steve Deace

“For politics is not just about things necessary and eternal, nor is it just a matter of good judgment in a given situation. It…

— Daniel Gross

“The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.”

— T.S. Eliot

“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians.…

— Henry T. Blackaby

“Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and…

— Stanley Hoffmann

“Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Similarly, those who have been weaned off the self-aggrandizing attractions of political power are those who can then best be entrusted with it.”

— R.W.L. Moberly

“Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.”

— Peter Prange

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

— Bob Edwards