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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.Short Humor Insult
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.Short
As government expands, liberty contracts.Short
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.Short Humor
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.Short Power
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.Short War Enemy
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.Short
Politics is the exercise of power without meritShort Power
Politics and merit are opposite ends of a spectrum.Short
All Politics Quotes ⇑
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.Philosophy Intelligence
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.History Power Future Past
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.Humor
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Change
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.Ignorance
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.Society
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.Humor
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.Humor
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.Freedom
Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.Success War Enemy
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.Funny Short
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.Philosophy
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.Philosophy
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.Responsibility
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.God Humor
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.Power
Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.Wisdom
Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.Fear Men Power
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.Witty Humor
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards - wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity - come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.Love Success Wisdom Knowledge
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.Funny Religion
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.Wisdom
You're in America now... Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.Humor
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.Opinion
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.Honesty Insult
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'Knowledge Ignorance
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.Man woman
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.Funny Belief Sarcasm
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.Society
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.Knowledge Idea
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.Humor
Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.Change Society
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.War
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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.Freedom History Philosophy
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.Power
If your nation is important for you and if you believe that you have handed over your nation to a bunch of crooks and you're sitting here and it's entertainment for you, I think it is you who need to be punished, not the corrupt.
If the citizens aren't corrupt, it would be difficult for the politician to be corrupt.
[Sadhguru on his political inclination] It takes two wings to fly. I have both the wings, I flap as it is necessary
In a Democracy, we have the right to protest for sure, but we do not have the right to disrupt even one citizen's life.Life
Political views can be expensive. When what you want to be true diverges from what is true, you'll make bad life decisions.
Looking for someone to blame for polarization? There's no one to blame. The system is the problem
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.Money
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.Philosophy Reality
Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.Death Fear
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.Humor People
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese, and the peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France, in spite of the fact that we are related by blood
democracy has something called a secret ballot, that means you vote whom you want, even your family need not know, but now you have already declared from birth- "I am only going to vote for this party, no matter what they do", this is FeudalismChoice
The biggest cost of politics is that it can cause you to have comforting, false, and ultimately expensive beliefs about business and science.Science Belief Comfort
Engaging in politics habituates and rewires the brain to value agreement and signaling. It weakens the ability to reason independently and clearly.
Cancel culture brings high school politics to the adult world.
The actual political shift is that America is going from two political parties run by the elites to two political parties (temporarily) run by the masses.
As the elites get kicked out of each party, we are going from Republicans vs Democrats to Nationalists vs Socialists.
Two big places Mutually Assured Destruction has really worked - nuclear weapons and the ban on overtly targeting the heads of state that declare the wars.
Two types of Twitter users - those who are on Politics Twitter and those who have learned how to tune out Politics Twitter.
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. 
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it. 
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy? 
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. 
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. 
Seven Deadly Sins: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Science without humanity, Knowledge without character, Politics without principle, Commerce without morality, Worship without sacrifice. 
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. 
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable 
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. 
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. 
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. 
As government expands, liberty contracts. 
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind. 
Politics and merit are opposite ends of a spectrum. 
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.
Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards - wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity - come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
You're in America now... Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
![Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on …](/i/quotes-pictures/8/061-bernie-sanders-change-politics.jpg)
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
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.
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.
If your nation is important for you and if you believe that you have handed over your nation to a bunch of crooks and you're sitting here and it's entertainment for you, I think it is you who need to be punished, not the corrupt.
If the citizens aren't corrupt, it would be difficult for the politician to be corrupt.
When people are alone, they become spiritual. When in company, they become religious
![[Sadhguru on his political inclination] It takes two wings to fly. I have both the wings, I flap as …](/i/quotes-pictures/11/145-sadhguru-politics.jpg)
[Sadhguru on his political inclination] It takes two wings to fly. I have both the wings, I flap as it is necessary
In a Democracy, we have the right to protest for sure, but we do not have the right to disrupt even one citizen's life.
Political views can be expensive. When what you want to be true diverges from what is true, you'll make bad life decisions.
Looking for someone to blame for polarization? There's no one to blame. The system is the problem
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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.
Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese, and the peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France, in spite of the fact that we are related by blood
democracy has something called a secret ballot, that means you vote whom you want, even your family need not know, but now you have already declared from birth- "I am only going to vote for this party, no matter what they do", this is Feudalism
The biggest cost of politics is that it can cause you to have comforting, false, and ultimately expensive beliefs about business and science.
Engaging in politics habituates and rewires the brain to value agreement and signaling. It weakens the ability to reason independently and clearly.
Cancel culture brings high school politics to the adult world.
The actual political shift is that America is going from two political parties run by the elites to two political parties (temporarily) run by the masses.
As the elites get kicked out of each party, we are going from Republicans vs Democrats to Nationalists vs Socialists.
Two big places Mutually Assured Destruction has really worked - nuclear weapons and the ban on overtly targeting the heads of state that declare the wars.
Two types of Twitter users - those who are on Politics Twitter and those who have learned how to tune out Politics Twitter.
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.