Politics Quotes

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.

Everything is politics.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.