politics Quotes

“Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:death politics

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:freedom speech politics

“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

topic:war politics tyranny

“We still have great comedy out there. There's always rambling Joe Biden.”

― Robin Williams, Weapons of Self Destruction

“Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill bred.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

topic:politics democracy

“Civilisation had been restored to the Island. But now the political fabric which nurtured it was about to be overthrown. Hitherto strong men armed had kept the house. Now a child, a weakling, a vacillator, a faithless, feckless creature,...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“The major disadvantage of the proposed negative income tax is its political implications. It establishes a system under which taxes are imposed on some to pay subsidies to others. And presumably, these others have a vote.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“so many unscrupulous people have got hold of the progressive cause of late and have so distorted in their own interests everything they touched, that the whole cause has been dragged in the mire.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

topic:power politics

“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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