Politics Quote by William Bolitho

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling,…

— Jon Meacham

“I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)”

— Mev Puleo

“Sentiment and brutality, never one without the other, like fossils and oil.”

— Saul Bellow

“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“In politics, victory goes to those with cunning, mettle and deviousness, not those who have facts and principles on their side.”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“the futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it.”

— Jane Austen

“Politics is the purview of scoundrels, tyrants, and fools.”

— Jim Butcher

“All my romances, by some kind of collusion between their heroes, have invariably followed a prearranged pattern of mediocrity and tragedy, or more precisely,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.”

— Orrin Woodward

“Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

— George Orwell