politics Quotes

“Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:women politics

“ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Being prime minister is a lonely job.”

― Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years

topic:power loneliness politics

“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“It is no use to take an action to which the masses are opposed, for it will then be impossible to enforce.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“The failure of global summits on the environment make it plain that our politics are subject to technology and finance.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

topic:politics failure

“Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

topic:work politics

“One curious feature about political reform is that so many people feel it is disloyal to attempt to rectify the abuses in one’s own party. And yet it is obvious that political morality is dependent upon the awakened conscience and private...”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

topic:politics choice

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

topic:knowledge philosophy ignorance politics

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