Fascism is a leftist product—a corrupt and diseased offshoot of leftist agitation.
Politics Quotes
The list of top contributors is odd: Benito Mussolini has the most entries, then Disraeli, with a Nigerian governor, Bernard Crick and Jean Chrétien behind them. It reflects what Wikiquote editors chose to collect, not a ranking of who said it best.
The better-sourced lines are drier. Edmund Burke, in 1770, dismissed the cant of “Not men, but measures.” Stanisław Jerzy Lec’s Unkempt Thoughts (1957) has the shortest joke on the page, “a Trojan horse race.” Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary (1911) calls politics a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Three well-known lines are flagged misattributed: “Politics is the art of the possible” (Franklin), a remark about playing your cards face upwards (H. G. Wells), and “politics have no relation to morals” (Machiavelli).
In politics, wishful thinking just gives the wolves a license to howl.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
You want to know what fascism is like? It is like your New Deal!
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.