Balloons Quote by Walter Lippmann

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or…

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

— E. O. Wilson

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

— Charles Bukowski

“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of political knowledge,…

— Robert Nandor Berki

Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and…

— Ludwig von Mises

No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.

— John Lydon

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

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to…

— Steven Pinker

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least…

— Otto von Bismarck

“We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia”

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

— Gore Vidal

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

— Leo Strauss