P Quotes
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“Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.”
“Politics is a blood sport.”
“Politics is a broken-backed activity which cannot supply religious satisfactions.”
Source: Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 1 (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)
“Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.”
“Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.”
“Politics is a contact sport.”
“Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.”
“Politics is a continuation of economics by other means”
“Politics is a damn expensive business. I had one hell of a time trying to raise money as a candidate. I had to put a second mortgage on our house to get that campaign started, and I ended up spending over $300,000 to get elected. I believe that public financing of federal election campaigns is the only thing that will insure good candidates and save the two-party system. It is the most degrading thing in the world to go out with your hat in your hand and beg for money, but that's what you have to do if you haven't got your own resources.”
“Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hear”
“Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?”
Source: Dangerous to Know: A Novel of Suspense
“Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort and the greatest diverter of human productivity ever concocted by those who do not believe in authentic social and economic progress.”
“Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.”
“Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.”
“Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.”
“Politics is a game of friends.”
“Politics is a game of power. The politician and the soldier is interested in conquering the world and achieve world dominion and the meditator is interested in onquering himself.
To conquer somebody else is to destroy, to reduce the other to a thing.The effort to conquer somebody else is inhuman. The real victory is alwaysinner. It is a victory over yourself.
The politician and the soldier fight with others, the meditator has nofight with anybody in the world. He has dropped all conflicts, all struggle. He does not think in terms of war. He is at peace with existence. He has surrendered to existence, hence there is no question of war.
But in that surrender, he becomes a conqueror, because he becomes a vehicle of the whole. He is no more apart, he is no more separate from the whole. He is no more small and confined. He has become one with the whole.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.”
“Politics is a game requiring great coolness.”
“Politics is a game where only the strong survive”.”
“Politics is a good thing!”
Source: Overtime!: The Election 2000 Thriller
“Politics is a hideous subject, but I will say this: people tell you that dictatorships are sometimes necessary to good order, and that this sort of highly centralized government is stable and dependable. But this is seldom so. It is nearly always bureaucratic and crooked, unstable, fickle, and barbarous; and it excites those same qualities in those it governs.”
Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
“Politics is a highly tribal business.”
“Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.”
“Politics is a lie, religion is a myth and humanity is slavery.”
“Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.”
“Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they're not doing it right you've got to speak up and show them and if you still don't get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.”
“Politics is a lot like walking through a feedlot in springtime: it's slow going and you're constantly surrounded by crap.”
Source: Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland
“Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.”
“Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.”
“Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.”
Source: All the King's Men
“Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.”
Source: The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel
“Politics is a moving target with no bullseye of truth, breaking up more families than uniting them.”
Source: Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
“Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.”
“Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.”
“Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“Politics is a people business. I like people.”
“Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.”
Source: The pursuit of humor and other essays
“Politics is a potent way to empower women.”
“Politics is a profession, and a form of service, and it should draw people who are passionate and have deep experience of the complex, changing nature of the world.”
“Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”
“Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done.”
Source: The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
“Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.”
“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.”
Source: No exit, and three other plays
“Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.”
Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
“Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes adjust to the needs of men by transforming and masking themselves. Because of that it is not fundamental. That is about what endures, what is unique, what is in the stream of illusions - what is eliminated from the workings of the shadows.”
Source: On My Painting - Max Beckmann
“Politics is a substitute for violence.”
“Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.”
“Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.”