It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: politics risk danger wrong right government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. —Gustave Flaubert More about this quote Tags: politics democracy class stupidity bourgeois proletarian Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. —Adam Clayton Powell Jr. More about this quote Tags: politics law ethics money class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. —Ogden Nash More about this quote Tags: politics history time progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. —Patrick Leahy More about this quote Tags: politics opinions USA liberals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: politics purpose reason patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: politics time change conservative radical Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: politics progress change dissatisfaction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen. —Hannah Arendt More about this quote Tags: politics language business imperialism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. —Stanley Kubrick More about this quote Tags: politics nations international relations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: politics wisdom nations money capital Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: politics struggle snakes entrapment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I look at the politics of this country as a game that is played on the people, this illusion of choice. It's interesting that the important things have been reduced in number: oil companies, communications, pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking, accounting, all these firms have been merged and reduced. The choices are very limited. But if you want a bagel, we've got twenty-six flavors. There are four hundred kinds of mustard in this country. These are the illusions of choice. I don't really think choice is here to any substantive degree. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: justice politics choice irony banking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital? —Shirley Ann Grau More about this quote Tags: politics capital highways roads Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. —Marcus Aurelius More about this quote Tags: politics perfection progress change Plato Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email