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).

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The only kind of politics I am interested in is military politics, to begin with. In fact, this is the only thing I can think of when one says politics.

Friedrich Kittler

"I suppose it was that day that convinced me I should enter politics and speak out against the violence that was so prevalent in our society."

Specioza Kazibwe

“Nobody can intimidate me by any mean possible, I’m not a pushover in politics, whoever is thinking along that direction should forget it,”

Ahmed Adam Saba

"Ideology is masked politics."

Paulin J. Hountondji Combats pour le sens: Un itinéraire africain (1997)

It means that our politics should not be inward-looking, so this degree gave me an outward perspective to avoid falling into the pitfalls of past failures."

Marshall Dlamini