Animal Quote by Robert Bellarmine

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

— Aristotle

Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the…

— John Quincy Adams

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself…

— Karl Marx

“Politics is the process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

— Kenneth Waltz

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

— Anonymous

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them…

— Thomas Jefferson

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is…

— Saul Bellow

The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly…

— Daniel O'Connell

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise…

— Quentin Crisp

To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is,…

— John Locke

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political

— Renata Adler