Politics Quotes - Page 6

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba - yes Cuba too.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man