Quotes about politics
529 quotes from 258 people
Milton Friedman1912–2006Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 12
Thomas Sowellborn 1930Creators Syndicate November 28, 1998.Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey1927–1989“The Second Rape of the West”, p. 183
Lionel Trilling1905–1975Notebook entry (1948), published in Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition, ed. William Philips (1985)
Otto von Bismarck1815–1898Interview (11 August 1867) with Friedrich Meyer von Waldeck of the St. Petersburgische Zeitung: Aus den Erinnerungen eines russischen Publicisten. 2. Ein Stündchen beim Kanzler des norddeutschen Bundes. In: Die Gartenlaube (1876) p. 858 de.wikisource- Otto von Bismarck1815–1898Speech to Prussian upper house (18 December 1863)
Vladimir Putinborn 1952Responding to Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin, who called himself a former KGB officer. (May 6, 2000)
Christopher Hitchens1949–2011The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favourite Fetish
Walter Benjamin1892–1940Translated by Rodney Livingstone in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Harvard: 1996)Government doesn’t “intrude” on the “free market.” It creates the market.
Robert Reichborn 1946Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (2015)
Thomas Robert Malthus1766–1834An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter I, paragraph 18, lines 1-2
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926“Revolution” in New York Worker (27 April 1907)It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
Simone Weil1909–1943Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 159 (1972 edition)Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Volume iii, p. 334I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Unarmed Victory (1963), p. 14