Political Quotes

“The truth is that Rear Admiral Brown did everything—everything anyone could have expected and more—to keep the peace, but he was attacked by the so-called peace activists. His reward for his restraint and his commitment to duty was to be branded the Butcher of Castellan.”
― D Rebbitt, Revelation: The Globur Incursion Book 10

“O fascismo também é capaz de aprender lições, e, neste momento, ao espelho da história recente, nacional e internacional, recompõe o rosto. Não virá com o nome de fascismo, mas esse é o seu nome.”
― José Saramago, Folhas Políticas: 1976-1998

“What is no longer unified by spirit must be separated by will”
― Jake Parsons

“Officially, it goes:
If you don't love this country why don't you get out of it?
Because I don't want to be victimized by its foreign policy”
― Barry Crimmins

“You can bomb us, torture us, burn our districts to the ground.
But just remember fire is catching and when we burn
You burn with us!”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Climate change is the most fascinating scientific, political, and social puzzle in history.”
― Gun Gun Febrianza

“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue; extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice.”
― Barry Goldwater

“When you demonize an entire race.. atrocities always follow.”
― Rube Golberg

“All governments are a facade, all politicians are merely actors.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“A common saw about current American politics is that the right has political power and craves
cultural power, while the left has cultural power and craves political power.”
― Fredrik deBoer, How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

“what, for instance, were you telling me about charity? And yet the gratification derived from giving charity is an arrogant and immoral tell nothing gratification, the gratification a rich man takes in his riches, his power, and the comparison he makes between his importance and the importance of a poor man. Charity corrupts both the one who gives it and the one who receives it, and furthermore, it doesn't achieve its goal, because it only intensifies poverty. Lazy people who don't want to work throng around people who give, like gamblers around the gambling table, hoping to win. And meanwhile, the pitiful coins that are tossed their way Such trivial are insufficient for even a hundredth of what they need. Have you given away much in your lifetime? Perhaps eighty kopecks, no more, if you stop and think about it. Just try to remember the last time you gave something; it would be a good two years go, and perhaps four. You're just making a lot of noise and impeding the cause. In today's society charity should definitely be prohibited by law. In the new social order there will be no such thing as poor people.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

“Our leaders are sick of all the solid information that has been dumped on humanity by research and scholarship and investigative reporting. They think that the whole country is sick of it, and they could be right. It isn't the gold standard they want to put us back on. They want something even more basic. They want to put us back on the snake-oil standard.
Loaded pistols are good for everyone except inmates in prisons or lunatic asylums.
That's correct.
Millions spent on public health are inflationary.
That's correct.
Billions spent on weapons will bring inflation down.
That's correct.
Dictatorships to the right are much closer to American ideals than dictatorships to the left.
That's correct.
The more hydrogen bomb warheads we have, all set to go off at a moment's notice, the safer humanity is and the better off the world will be that our grandchildren will inherit.
That's correct.
Industrial wastes, and especially those that are radioactive, hardly ever hurt anybody, so everybody should shut up about them.
That's correct.
Industries should be allowed to do whatever they want to do: Bribe, wreck the environment just a little, fix prices, screw dumb customers, put a stop to competition, and raid the Treasury when they go broke.
That's correct.
That's free enterprise.
And that's correct.
The poor have done something very wrong or they wouldn't be poor, so their children should pay the consequences.
That's correct.
The United States of America cannot be expected to look after its own people.
That's correct.
The free market will do that.
That's correct.
The free market is an automatic system of justice.
That's correct.
I'm kidding.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

“There's damn little caring for mothers, babies, old people, or anybody physically or economically weak these days as we become ever more industrialized and militarized with the guessers in charge.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

“We can choose to be the Incarceration Nation or, once again, become the land of the free.”
― Andrew Drasen, A Vision of Hope: A Story of Redemption and Purpose

“Women seek equality from the cradle to the grave. They face invisibility, dismemberment and disempowerment in most aspects of society; ghostly feelings known not only to trauma survivors, but to all women at various points in their lives. We all have a "dead sister", whether it's a friend, a mother, a daughter, or ourselves. Liberal society encourages us to call out abuses, to reclaim agency over our bodies and lives, and simultaneously condemns us for doing so.”
― Ioana Cristina Casapu

“Why do we turn away instead of standing with him?
Oh, keep your head-
Why are we digging our own graves for a living?
Oh, keep your head-
If we're free
Tell me why
We can't even stand upright?
If we're free
Tell me when
We can stand with our fellow man
Keep your head-”
― Anias Mitchell

“Nothing is so soon corrupted by power-seeking as altruism.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Day Before the Revolution

“You may have brilliant ideas or even strong arguments. But once you are appointed to represent your county, try not to put pressure on your own government just because of your little advice. Pressure should come from outside the government, not from within. I believe that any push for change, accountability, or action should come from external forces — such as the public, media, or civil society — not from within the government.”
― Mensa Orgenes Moshy

“When you have eliminated the important, whatever remains, however importunate, must be the sleuth.”
― Moshe Sipper, Quest in Peace: An Alluvial Allegory of Allusive Allegations

“A non sequitur in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
― Moshe Sipper, Quest in Peace: An Alluvial Allegory of Allusive Allegations

“Makeup is a dyeing art.”
― Moshe Sipper, Quest in Peace: An Alluvial Allegory of Allusive Allegations

“To the curious incident of Chapter 13,” said Myx evenly.
“There is no Chapter 13,” stated General positively.
Myx vaulted triumphantly. “That is the curious incident.”
― Moshe Sipper, Quest in Peace: An Alluvial Allegory of Allusive Allegations

“When political analysis is done with missionary zeal and copiously flows the adrenaline, the lynch mobs are never far behind. The critic is more guilty for the consequences than the subject of his criticism or the mob.”
― R. N. Prasher

“... Why have they been taught to look at things that way? Because these same countries we say are populated by savages are the same countries we're subjugating. If we admitted they're human beings just like us, then it would make us the invading barbarians.”
― Ray Celestin, Palace of Shadows

“When the storytellers are silenced, the tyrants grow louder. Never stop telling the truth, even in metaphor.”
― Lawrence Nault

“If there is no political game, no one plays, no one even watches, and there will be neither winners nor losers.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“They killed him, she thought. Right here, mere paces away from where noblemen wait for their carriages. As if the death were nothing out of the ordinary. Just another skaa slaughtered. Like an animal.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Propaganda is the evil twin of Fiction: while Fiction is the art of telling the truth without ever telling the truth, Propaganda is the art of using the truth to tell a lie.”
― Criss Jami

“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today."

John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”
― John Dos Passos, Occasions and Protests

“Wars are made by the rich, but it is the poor who fight them, and are impoverished by them.”
― Kelly Iyogun