Quotes on Humor In Politics

Humor In Politics Quotes

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your step as you walk the tightrope of life.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy

Politics is the art of putting people under obligation to you.

Jacob L. Arvey

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jessamyn West

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

Elizabeth Janeway

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction

John George Nicolay

Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Ambrose Bierce

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon

Carl Hiaasen

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned watchers of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them."

U Thant

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics

Albert Schweitzer

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Victor Borge

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

Mark Twain

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

David Mamet

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

Jacob Bronowski

The person who says "I'm not political" is in great danger.... Only the fittest will survive, and the fittest will be the ones who understand their office's politics.

Jean Hollands

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money ... and I can't remember what the other one is.

F. PAUL WILSON

Politics ... regarded as the study and pursuit of the true, enduring good of a community, as the application of great and unchangeable principles to public affairs, is a noble sphere of thought and action; but politics, in its common sense, or considered as the invention of temporary shifts, as the playing of a subtle game, as the tactics of party for gaining power and the spoils of office, and for elevating one set of men above another, is a paltry and debasing concern.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

FULKE GREVILLE

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Winston Churchill

Politics have no relation to morals.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

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