Politics and Diplomacy

"A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world."

Tony Benn

God and Religion

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"All war represents a failure of diplomacy."

Tony Benn

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

Groucho Marx

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."

William Ewart Gladstone

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world."

Harry S. Truman

Politics and Diplomacy

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?"

Leo Szilard

Politics and Diplomacy

Talent and Genius

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces."

Ansel Adams

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."

Ansel Adams

Human

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"[...] politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder."

Henry John "Harry" Patch

Life and Death

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."

Charles Bukowski

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head."

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Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."

Chester Bowles

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."

Alan Corenk

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."

Laurence J. Peter

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."

Joel Barker

Politics and Diplomacy

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously."

Louis Adolphe Thiers

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Politicians and Diapers should be changed often, and for the same reason."

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Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme."

Roy Hattersley

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A Democrat -- too poor to be a capitalist, too rich to be a Communist."

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Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Diplomats were invented simply to waste time."

David Lloyd George

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Politics is occupational therapy for the morally handicapped."

Charles J. C. Lyall

Manners and Ethics

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."

Lenny Bruce "The Essential Lenny Bruce"

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think."

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Authority, Government

Intellect, Judgement

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician."

Eugene Ionesco

Politics and Diplomacy

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."

Jean Baudrillard "Cool Memories"

Politics and Diplomacy

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not."

Indira Gandhi

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."

Vera Brittain "The Rebel Passion"

Human

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."

Margaret Thatcher

Politics and Diplomacy

Woman and Man

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last."

Charles de Gaulle

Politics and Diplomacy

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Being prime minister is a lonely job.... you cannot lead from the crowd."

Margaret Thatcher "The Downing Street Years"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."

Winston Churchill

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side."

William Ewart Gladstone speech to the House of Commons

Politics and Diplomacy

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it."

William Pitt the Elder (speech, House of Lords, Jan 9, 1770)

Politics and Diplomacy

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies."

F.M. Cornford

Friendship and Hostility

Politics and Diplomacy

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue."

Emma Goldman "Anarchism and Other Essays"

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."

Franklin P. Adams

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

Abraham Lincoln

Politics and Diplomacy

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."

Sartre-Jean-Paul

Politics and Diplomacy

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."

Doug Larson

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country."

Alfred Thompson, Baron Denning

Intellect, Judgement

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."

Nikita Khrushchev

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every country has the government it deserves."

Joseph de Maistre "Lettres et Opuscules Inedits"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes."

Mogens Jallberg

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."

Arnold Toynbee

History and Nations

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)