Comic Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“... a good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect of legislators…

— Henry Fielding

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole,…

— Plutarch

Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any…

— Henry David Thoreau

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

— Melvin Laird

“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

“Every state in which anyone other than the statesman has to concern himself with politics is ill organized and deserves to perish by all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— T.S. Eliot

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who…

— Frank Moore Colby

Policy sits above conscience.

— William Shakespeare

The conscience of a people is their power.

— John Dryden

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their…

— Slavoj Žižek

“The consequence of this, morally, is that the individual is of less significance than the state. The individual’s empirical, day-to-day interests are of a…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks