Quotations about Politics

Politics are a fascinating yet sometimes scary hobby to venture into. It seems the more we read and find out, the more we hate. Nonetheless, it doesn't stop us from continuing our persuit.

These quotes are all about the glory of politics.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams

As long as I've known anything about politics, I've been skeptical. And it has evolved. The more I saw, the more skeptical I became.
David Brinkley

Politics is not the art of the possible; it is the art of making possible what is necessary.
Jacques Chirac

Our only safe rule in politics... was always to believe that the worst would be done. Then we were not deceived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth

Politics and villainy are almost synonymous terms.
Frederick II

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken

Politics, as hopeful men practice it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
H.L. Mencken

To eschew political motives is a first rule of politics.
Raymond Moley

Politics, very often, is simply economics pursued by other means.
Edward J. Nell