The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
There are but two means of locomotion to the top. Either people must like you so much that they push you there, or you, yourself, are so good that you push yourself there.
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.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
There are no true friends in politics.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
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