What is Politics? Quotes from Personalities

For people, it is a method of solving problems in a democratic way. But I can mention what a man told me in 1989. For as long as the world can remember, it was getting better, but it didn't get better. Take care of yourself. My opinion aligns with those who have claimed for 3,000 years that politics remains unchanged. I'm just going to quote a few people in general about politics.

Every few years, the oppressed get to choose precisely which members of the oppressor class will represent and oppress them.

Karl Marx

Politics is not a game. This is serious business.

Winston Churchill

Politics has nothing to do with morality.

Niccolò Machiavelli

In politics, stupidity is not a disadvantage.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If voting changes anything, they will make it illegal.

Emma Goldman

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

Aesop

It is enough for people to know that there was an election. People who vote don't decide anything. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Joseph Stalin

Politics: A struggle of interests disguised as a contest of principles. Politics involves the conduct of public affairs for personal gain.

Ambrose Bierce

Man is naturally a political animal.

Aristotle

They say politics is the second oldest profession. I learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

As a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles de Gaulle

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, misdiagnosing it, and applying the wrong means.

Ernest Benn

Every stone conceals a politician.

Aristophanes

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