Politics Quotes

The extreme form of this expropriation of the Common is the spectacle, that is, the politics we live in.
Giorgio Agamben



"Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none."
Mumia Abu-Jamal



'I'm one of the last socialists left in Irish politics.
Bertie Ahern



Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought.
Matthew Arnold



...from politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen



The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
Bernard Bailyn



People reserve their best thinking for their professional specialties and, next in line, for serious matters confronting the alert citizeneconomics, politics, the disposal of nuclear waste, etc. The days work done, they want to be entertained.
Saul Bellow



I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.
Silvio Berlusconi



The real Italian anomaly is not Silvio Berlusconi but communist prosecutors and communist judges in Milan who have attacked him again and again since he entered politics.
Silvio Berlusconi



What is a Wife & what is a Harlot? What is a Church & What Is a Theatre? are they Two & not One? can they Exist Separate? Are not Religion & Politics the Same Thing? Brotherhood is Religion O Demonstrations of Reason Dividing Families in Cruelty & Pride!
William Blake



Truth is a lagging indicator in politics.
James Bovard



In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury



An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
Ian Bremmer



South Africa, renowned both far and wide For politics and little else beside.
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell



It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.
Peter J. Carroll