We, the Black masses, don’t want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us today as Black Leaders representing the welfare of Black people. We won’t follow any leader today who comes on the basis of political party. Both parties (Democrat and Republican) are controlled by the same people who have abused our rights, and who have deceived us with false promises every time an election rolls around.
Malcolm X – Leadership, Politics
Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
Seneca – Sovereignty
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Politics – Edmund Burke
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire – Art of Government
Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
G.K. Chesterton – Speech, Politics
He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything – that clearly points to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw – Politician
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man
Mark Twain – Religion, Politics
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.
Winston Churchill – Power, Politics
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, Prediction
Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.
Winston Churchill – Politics, Ideology
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike – Government, Politics
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.
Aristotle – Politics
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Hannah Arendt – Speech, Politics
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah Arendt – Love
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
