Body Quote by Robert Musil

“In a dying civilisation, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician but of the man with the best beside manner. It…

— Eric Ambler

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

— Fulton J. Sheen

In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of…

— Edmund Burke

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger…

— Theodore Roosevelt

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for…

— Henry Miller

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is…

— Plato

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at…

— H. L. Mencken

A great politician has great charisma.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“This kind of hero worship has been promoted by politicians and their complicit media since the middle of the last century. Once you convince…

— Joseph Befumo

“Look here at a warrior born, a scion of power and poverty whose purpose is manifold: to shatter shackles, to murder monarchs, and to…

— Nicholas Eames