Political Quotes - Page 5

I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.

The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe