Quotes about politics
529 quotes from 258 people
Edward Abbey1927–1989One Life at a Time, Please (1988).Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey1927–1989“The Second Rape of the West”, p. 183
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 243 (8 December 1711)
Madeleine Albright1937–2022Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)Politics is like boxing — you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi Amin1925–2003Interview, African summit talks, Angola, January 1976. Reported p.A8, Palm Beach Post, January 12, 1976.
Kofi Annan1938–2018Message for the new millennium (31 December 1999)You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
Kofi Annan1938–2018Press conference regarding the use of force to gain compliance from Saddam Hussein (24 February 1998)The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt1906–1975The New Yorker (12 September 1970)- Hannah Arendt1906–1975Crises of the Republic (1969)
Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, chapter 2 (Bekker I.1253a2). Translated by Josiah Tucker, A Treatise Concerning Civil Government (1781), p. 381
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. III, Barbarians, Philistines, Populace- Matthew Arnold1822–1888The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)
