126 Political Quotes

Politics has always been an arena of passionate debates, profound insights, and stirring speeches. Whether uttered in the heat of a campaign or crafted in the solace of thoughtful reflection, political quotes have the power to inspire change, shape public opinion, and echo through the annals of history. In this curated collection, we've gathered the top 126 political quotes that capture the essence of leadership, democracy, and the relentless pursuit of justice. These quotes provide not only a window into the minds of some of history's most significant figures but also timeless wisdom that remains relevant today. So, delve in and discover the powerful words that have helped to define political thought across generations.

1. “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” - Audre Lorde

2. “It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist.” - Clarence Page

3. “Ladies and Gentlemen. I should like to inform you on behalf of the nation state of Guyana, that we are going to resign from being a country. We can't make it work. We have tried. We have done our best. It is not possible. The problems are insoluble. From midnight tonight, we shall cease trading. The country is now disbanded. We will voluntarily liquidate ourselves. The nation will disperse quietly, a little shamefaced but so what. We had a go.Different people have suggested different solutions. Do it this way. Try that. Let me have a go. Nothing works. We are at the mercy of the rich countries. A team of management consultants from the United States could not find the answer, and for not finding the answer, we had to pay them an amount that substantially increased our national debt. We give in, gracefully, but we give in."And then he imagined himself, quietly and with dignity, putting his papers in his briefcase, bowing to the hushed assembly, returning to clear out his office and going for a walk with his wife along the sea wall. (The Ventriloquist's Tale” - Pauline Melville

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

5. “If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.” - Jonah Goldberg

6. “Let the revolution begin.” - Ron Paul

7. “The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.” - Frank Zappa

8. “Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.” - Douglas Casey

9. “A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.” - Ron Paul

10. “An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.” - Mahatma Gandhi

11. “In Venezuela Chavez has made the co-ops a top political priority, giving them first refusal on government contracts and offering them economic incentives to trade with one another. By 2006, there were roughly 100,000 co-operatives in the country, employing more than 700,000 workers. Many are pieces of state infrastructure – toll booths, highway maintenance, health clinics – handed over to the communities to run. It’s a reverse of the logic of government outsourcing – rather than auctioning off pieces of the state to large corporations and losing democratic control, the people who use the resources are given the power to manage them, creating, at least in theory, both jobs and more responsive public services. Chavez’s many critics have derided these initiatives as handouts and unfair subsidies, of course. Yet in an era when Halliburton treats the U.S. government as its personal ATM for six years, withdraws upward of $20 billion in Iraq contracts alone, refuses to hire local workers either on the Gulf coast or in Iraq, then expresses its gratitude to U.S. taxpayers by moving its corporate headquarters to Dubai (with all the attendant tax and legal benefits), Chavez’s direct subsidies to regular people look significantly less radical.” - Naomi Klein

12. “It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us."Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York after WWI” - Alfred E. Smith

13. “History teaches usthat men and nationsonly behave wiselyonce they have exhaustedall other alternatives."--” - Abba Eban

14. “To the union of all honest men.” - Aaron Burr

15. “To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

16. “Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.” - Paulo Freire

17. “Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?” - Michelle Malkin

18. “I look at these people and can't quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in the chicken?" she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it? To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.” - David Sedaris

19. “Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.” - Ronald Reagan

20. “We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much.” - Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

21. “They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.” - Thomas Pynchon

22. “It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land.Yes we can!” - Barack Obama

23. “When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or making it easier for the less desirable of the two major candidates to claim victory. These lies are repeated every election and they must be ignored. You never waste your vote if you vote your conscience.” - Glenn Beck

24. “Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.” - Aijaz Ahmad

25. “Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.” - Roger Zelazny

26. “At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.” - George Clooney

27. “[spurious quotation].” - Joseph Stalin

28. “. ثلاثون عاماً ظهر فيها الدش والمحمول والإنترنت واختفى الوطن..” - جلال عامر

29. “وطن السر الذى يطلع منى خطوتى تاريخه رأسى فضا أنجمه لحمى علامات التخومو ....أمد الجسر حتى يقتلونى ...” - محمد عفيفي مطر

30. “When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.” - Ron Paul

31. “power the mojave desert with miles & miles of solar panels!” - joy leftow

32. “Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left. ” - Clint Eastwood

33. “And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?” - Edward Bellamy

34. “The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.” - David Lincoln

35. “I turned to books for comfort.” - Laura Bush

36. “The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.” - Aung San Suu Kyi

37. “I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.” - John Kenneth Galbraith

38. “To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.” - Douglas Adams

39. “Ultimately amorality is immorality.” - Roger M. Keesing

40. “Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

41. “Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united.” - William Bailey

42. “I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her.” - Jon Stewart

43. “The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.” - Rachel Maddow

44. “There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.” - Blaise Pascal

45. “It's easier to run a revolution than a government.” - Ferdinand Marcos

46. “The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.” - Jacob F. Roecker

47. “أنا لاأعتقد أن هناك دولة عظمى ستظهر بعد أمريكا ، إنما سيكون عالم متعدد الأقطاب مثل الصين واليابان وأوربا ،ومن يدري؟ فربما يكون العرب إحدى القوى السياسية في العالم.” - عبد الوهاب المسيري

48. “Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?"--Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor” - James Grady

49. “The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."[Beauharnais v.Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (1952) (dissenting)]” - William O. Douglas

50. “Palestine is the anvil of our souls.” - Clovis Maksoud

51. “You can't condemn a whole group of people because of the actions of a few.” - Justin Somper

52. “Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.” - John Grisham

53. “The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.” - Ronald Reagan

54. “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.” - Audre Lorde

55. “...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.” - Jean Edward Smith

56. “It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.” - Glenn Beck

57. “We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.” - Glenn Beck

58. “Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.” - James Morcan, Lance Morcan

59. “Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.” - Patrick O'Brian

60. “His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.” - Michael Dobbs

61. “In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for a doctorate in community organization. "Three of the questions were on the philosophy of and motivations of Saul Alinsky," writes Saul. "I answered two of them incorrectly.” - Nicholas von Hoffman

62. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Isaac Asimov

63. “Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.” - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

64. “No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.” - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

65. “La más común y duradera fuente de fraccionamiento ha sido la variada y desigual distribución de la propiedad” - James Madison

66. “The only working model of socialism I have ever seen is in an elementary school classroom.” - R.M. ArceJaeger

67. “To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion.” - Mitch McConnell

68. “Ha de decirse que para el científico, como convicción primigenia e indecible, hay una línea divisoria muy nítida entre la realidad del mundo que sucede y acaece con total prescindencia de lo que pueda hacerse o moldearse, y la realidad del mundo que se presta a la acción, al arte o al conjuro. Esto es, hay cosas que se dan u ocurren por sí mismas, cosas de naturaleza cabría decir, y cosas que pueden producirse o prevenirse a voluntad. Sin la actitud que envuelve esta convicción, debe afirmarse, no hay lugar para el conocimiento científico, independientemente de que el destino de ese conocimiento al final sea servirle de fundamento al desarrollo de eficientes técnicas para la acción o la manipulación.” - Asdrubal Baptista

69. “In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.” - Criss Jami

70. “The Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly said that America is not at war with Islam. And Republicans need to be vocal about condemning anyone, in America or abroad, who seeks to lump all Muslims together as America's enemies. America is not at war with Islam, and Republicans must continue to follow President Bush's example in condemning any expressions of prejudice against Muslims.” - Margaret Hoover

71. “And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see.” - Lysander Spooner

72. “...political correctness is ... not about tolerance; it’s about “toe the party line or it’s the gulag for you, Comrade.” - Solbury Tor” - C.J. Moran

73. “The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had secured control of taxation and therefore of government; even when the menace of dynastic conflicts had receded in to the coloured past; even when kingship had ceased to be transcendental and had become one of many alternative institutional forms; the principle of hereditary Monarchy continued to furnish the State with certain specific and inimitable advantages.Apart from the imponderable, but deeply important, sentiments and affections which congregate around an ancient and legitimate Royal Family, a hereditary Monarch acquires sovereignty by processes which are wholly different from those by which a dictator seizes, or a President is granted, the headship of the State. The King personifies both the past history and the present identity of the Nation as a whole. Consecrated as he is to the service of his peoples, he possesses a religious sanction and is regarded as someone set apart from ordinary mortals. In an epoch of change, he remains the symbol of continuity; in a phase of disintegration, the element of cohesion; in times of mutability, the emblem of permanence. Governments come and go, politicians rise and fall: the Crown is always there. A legitimate Monarch moreover has no need to justify his existence, since he is there by natural right. He is not impelled as usurpers and dictators are impelled, either to mesmerise his people by a succession of dramatic triumphs, or to secure their acquiescence by internal terrorism or by the invention of external dangers. The appeal of hereditary Monarchy is to stability rather than to change, to continuity rather than to experiment, to custom rather than to novelty, to safety rather than to adventure.The Monarch, above all, is neutral. Whatever may be his personal prejudices or affections, he is bound to remain detached from all political parties and to preserve in his own person the equilibrium of the realm. An elected President – whether, as under some constitutions, he be no more than a representative functionary, or whether, as under other constitutions, he be the chief executive – can never inspire the same sense of absolute neutrality. However impartial he may strive to become, he must always remain the prisoner of his own partisan past; he is accompanied by friends and supporters whom he may seek to reward, or faced by former antagonists who will regard him with distrust. He cannot, to an equal extent, serve as the fly-wheel of the State.” - Harold Nicholson

74. “Italy has been made; now it remains to make Italians” - Massimo D'Azeglio

75. “Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.” - Michele Poague

76. “One of the prerogatives of American citizenship is the right to criticize public men and measures, and that means not only informed and responsible criticism but the freedom to speak foolishly and without moderation.” - Felix Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1944.

77. “The worst possible outlook is indifference that says, “I can’t do anything about it; I’ll just get by.” Behaving like that deprives you of one of the essentials of being human: the capacity and the freedom to feel outraged. That freedom is indispensable, as is the political involvement that goes with it.” - Stéphane Hessel

78. “Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.” - Stieg Larsson

79. “اذا دخل الاستبداد من الباب هربت الحرية و الكرامة و الأمن و حقوق الانسان من النافذة لأن الاستبداد لا يدخل وحده و انما يصحبه الارهاب و البطش و الترويع عندئذ يتحول الناس الى كائنات هلامية حسبهم من الحياة أن يعيشوها فى سكون و أن ينتهى بقاؤهم فيها دون أن يمسهم طائف من العذاب..انها حياة أشبه بحياة القطيع ليس فيها من النشاط الانسانى سوى اشباع الغرائز أما اشباع العقل و غذاء الروح و الارتقاء بالتفكير فكلها أنشطة تخضع لسيطرة المستبد الذى يسعده أن تتحول الرعية الى امعات معدومة الشخصية تميل حيث تميل الريح ..ولا تسبح أبدا ضد التيار” - جمال بدوى

80. “... had to pee like a racehorse at an Iced Tea convention.” - Stephen Colbert

81. “I think all artists struggle to represent the geometryof life in their own way, just like writers deal witharchetypes. There are only so many stories that you cantell, but an infinite number of storytellers.” - Henry Mosquera

82. “Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.” - Jonathan Haidt

83. “A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!” - Golda Meir

84. “It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.” - Hedley Bull

85. “Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trendis statism. Philosophically, the goal is theobliteration of reason;psychologically, it is theerosion of ambition.” - Ayn Rand

86. “England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.” - George Orwell

87. “The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.” - Emilia Pardo Bazán

88. “...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

89. “It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

90. “There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.” - Richard K Morgan

91. “السادات الذي كان في بدايه عهده بالرئاسة يقضي نهاية الأسبوع في قرية " ميت أبو الكوم " مسقط رأسه، بجلبابه البلدي هو نفسه السادات الذي إنتهي به الأمر إلي أن يفكر في أن يرتدي الزي الفرعوني ويستقل عربة فرعونية إلي الأهرامات وأبو الهول! ملكاً فرعونياً يتهادي طالطاووس !!” - إمام عبد الفتاح إمام

92. “You can't believe that AIDS is a curse from God against Gays without accepting that Lyme Disease is a curse from the same God against Deer Hunters...” - T. Rafael Cimino

93. “Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.” - Enver Hoxha

94. “و من عجائب أخلاقيات البشر أن الدنيا تنقلب إذا وقعت قطة فى بالوعة أو إذا ماتت كلبة فى سفينة فضاء أما إغتيال رجل أو إمرأة أو ألف طفل فليس شيئا خطيرا - إذا كان فلسطينيا” - أنيس منصور

95. “The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.” - T. Rafael Cimino

96. “...the Palestinian Arabs' obsession with the Jews and rejection of all political compromise was inspired by Islamic teachings as well as by European fascism.” - Sol Stern

97. “If the Palestinian people really suffered a nakba, it was largely of their own making — and that of their grand mufti.” - Sol Stern

98. “Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.” - Sol Stern

99. “...British appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews [in the Holocaust] who might otherwise have found refuge in Palestine.” - Sol Stern

100. “This war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades. —by Arab League Secretary General Abdul Rahman Azzam” - Sol Stern

101. “This Obamacare thing really scares me. The United States government / politicians are trying to turn the American people into a brand X “One size fits all” country. The past ten years has been very grim for Americans. Our current state is very grim. Our future is even more grim than ever. I used to tell people that it will get worse before it gets better. Now, I just say it will get worse.” - Carroll Bryant

102. “Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.” - T. Rafael Cimino

103. “Y yo pregunto a los economistas políticos, a los moralistas, si han calculado el número de individuos que es necesario condenar a la miseria, al trabajo desproporcionado, a la infancia desamparada, a la ignorancia crapulosa, a la desgracia invencible, a la penuria absoluta, para producir un rico.” - Almeida Garrett

104. “A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.” - Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan

105. “Have a smile on your face for everyone you meet, and a plan to kill them.” - Brad Thor

106. “Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and that can get you killed faster than a bullet through the head.” - Henry Mosquera

107. “Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.” - Jon Meacham

108. “Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.” - Lois McMaster Bujold

109. “Simplemente, considero que la política es la actuación pública de pasiones privadas. Incluyendo, sobre todo, acaso, la pasión amorosa. Pero las pasiones son formas arbitrarias de la conducta y la política es una disciplina.” - Carlos Fuentes

110. “En cambio, la fortuna política es un largo orgasmo, querido. El éxito tiene que ser mediato y lento en llegar para ser duradero. Un largo orgasmo, querido.” - Carlos Fuentes

111. “You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.” - Johnnie Dent Jr.

112. “I turned on Fox News and jumped when I saw that they had one of those things in their studio. "Are you people crazy?" I screamed at the television. "Get out of there. Somebody shoot it!" Then I realized I was watching Special Report and had mistaken Charles Krauthammer for a zombie.” - Ian McClellan

113. “Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.” - Nancy Reagan

114. “The jobs in the greatest demand in the future don't yet exist and will require workers to use technologies that have not yet been invented to solve problems that we don't yet even know are problems.” - Gavin Newsom

115. “We've got to simplify, pull back all these layers of supposed complexity , and get down to the essentials. If we want people to engage with government, we should use the same tools that are getting them engages with companies and institutions in private life. If we want people to care about political issues, we should give them a way to understand and get involved in them.” - Gavin Newsom

116. “The men and women of England who abolished slavery, created the educational system, or gave women the vote were not acting on the hypotheses of what the voters wanted. They were afire with faith in what people ought to want and in the end they persuaded their lethargic compatriots to give them enough support to warrant a change.” - Geoffrey Vickers

117. “Las ideologías son prisiones mentales que producen ceguera.” - Fernando Araya

118. “What a country of lazy shits, with fucking hypocritical politicians claiming that people actually wanted to work if they could. Norwegians voted for the Socialist Party because it made it a human right to shirk their jobs, and who the hell wouldn't vote for a party that gave you three days off without a doctor's note, gave you carte blanche to sit at home and jerk off or go skiing or recover from a hangover? The Socialist Party knew, of course, what a perk this was, but still tried to appear responsible, preened themselves with their "trust in most people" and declared the right to malinger as some kind of social reform. The Progress Party was even more fucking infuriating, buying itself votes with tax cuts and hardly bothering to conceal the fact.” - Jo Nesbø

119. “Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality- sham killings- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death- being forced to witness abusive acts on others- being forced to make impossible "choices"- boundaries smashed i.e. by the use of forced nakedness, shame, embarrassment- hoaxes, 'set ups', testing and tricks- being forced to hurt othersRitual abuse survivors often describe much the same things.” - Laurie Matthew

120. “Education is political.” - Noel Castree

121. “La politica, se fatta a viso aperto e cuore sincero, è una sfida che vale la pena giocare, un’esperienza difficile ma meravigliosa” - Matteo Renzi

122. “Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.” - Aristotle

123. “Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” - Charles de Gaulle

124. “If your desire is for good, the people will be good.” - Confucius

125. “It's a shame, when I'm at the checkout line, and the cashier holds up my bill to the light, in search for a ghost president, or slashing a yellow marker to see if counterfeit. Even in money we can't be trusted. Makes we wonder whats next, will the government make a marker to slash our hand, or an x-ray we will have to walk through, to check if we have a dishonest heart or corrupt spirit?” - Anthony Liccione

126. “The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.” - R.J. Rushdoony