politics Quotes

“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering...”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:happiness politics

“They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:politics faith

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:freedom speech politics

“Our conclusion, then, is that political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:society virtue politics

“As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:science politics

“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:politics language

“So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”

― George Orwell, London Letter

topic:future politics

“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those...”

― Winston Churchill, The Second World War

topic:hope politics

“When the American republics begin to degenerate it will be easy to verify the truth of this observation, by remarking whether the number of political impeachments augments.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“On the one hand, freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself. In the second place, economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of...”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

topic:freedom politics

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