Politics Quotes

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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

- Vaclav Havel

The only thing we really have to fear is fearmongering itself.

- Maureen Dowd

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America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

- Jim Hightower

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Think globally, act locally.

- Rene Dubos

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

- William Blum

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

- Aldous Huxley

The best safeguard against fascism is to establish social justice to the maximum extent possible.

- Arnold Toynbee

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

- Louis D. Brandeis

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow.

- Abraham Lincoln

We can no longer tolerate anti-intellectualism. We can no longer tolerate liberal-bashing and we can no longer tolerate the politics of the dumb and the mean.

- Janeane Garofolo

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

- Carl Sagan

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

- Wilma Mankiller

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right -- it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

- Christopher Lasch

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

- A. Philip Randolph

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

- Frederick Douglass

I believe in only one thing: liberty, but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

- H. L. Mencken

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

- William Ellery Channing

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so...

- Robert Heinlein

You have to do something political every single day. Politics at its core is really about organizing people to do something for a cause that is bigger than themselves. April 13, 2011, at Yale University

- Howard Dean

I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.

- Howard Dean