Argument Quote by Ludwig von Mises

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political…

— James A. Garfield

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

— Walter Lippmann

One of the difficulties of politics is that politicians are shocked by those who are really prepared to let their thinking reach any conclusion.…

— Richard Crossman

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big…

— Anonymous

What has struck me about the political world, as opposed to the business world, is that rational discourse has become all but impossible. All…

— Gina Miller

Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right,…

— Raymond Geuss

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of…

— John Jay Chapman

If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep…

— Scott Adams

Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift…

— Georgi Plekhanov

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau