Politicsics Quotes

“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.”
― Otto von Bismarck

“Every election is determined by the people who show up.”
― Larry J. Sabato , Pendulum Swing

“When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.”
― Thomas L. Friedman

“The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.”
― George Orwell

“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong… This [is] mostly BS.”
― Jeffrey A. Miller

“You Can't Keep Wild Animal In Your Back Yard And Expect It To Go only After Your Neighbor.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton

“the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“كۆمه‌لگه‌ی پیكهاتوو له‌ هاوولاتی وریا له‌ هاوولاتی هه‌میشه‌ به‌خه‌به‌ر چیتر ئه‌و كۆمه‌لگه‌ خه‌ووتووه‌ نیه‌ كه‌ واقعی كۆمه‌لایه‌تی سیاسی و ئابووری خۆی نه‌بینێت - به‌لكو له‌ هه‌ر چركه‌یه‌ك ده‌توانێ هه‌ستێته‌ سه‌ر پێ و چاره‌نووسی رووداوه‌كان دیاری بكات - كۆمه‌لگه‌ی له‌ سه‌ر پێ هه‌میشه‌ ئاماده‌ی چودێریكردنه‌”
― Dr.Adel Bakawan

“He stepped back, looked up. Cut into the stone above his head were the words RUE MARAT.
For a moment he had the urge to turn back around the corner, climb the stairs, shout to the servants not to bother unpacking, they’d be returning to Arcis in the morning. He looked up to the lighted windows above his head. If I go up there, he thought, I’ll never be free again. If I go up there I commit myself to Max, to joining with him to finish Hébert, and perhaps to governing with him. I commit myself to fishing Fabre out of trouble—though God alone knows how that’s to be managed. I put myself once more under the threat of assassination; I recommence the blood feuds, the denunciations. His face hardened. You can’t stand in the street calling into question the last five years of your life, just because they’ve changed the street name; you can’t let it alter the future. No, he thought—and he saw it clearly, for the first time—it’s an illusion, about quitting, about going back to Arcis to farm. I’ve been lying to Louise: once in, never out.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety

“There's no greater joy in life than enjoying power without responsibility. - Mukta Prajapati”
― Tuhin A. Sinha, The Edge of Power

“When you find yourself on the top of the list where people believe in you, that dosen't mean you have succeed, that means you have reached a new level to begin.”
― Nizzi

“When hoards of people without a job,
become a bigoted lynching mob.

When talking wisely makes you a ghoul,
while being ignorant is so cool.

When influencers and entertainers are the new gods,
and a handful of money buys cheerleading squads.

When every leader sounds the same,
as gaining power becomes their only aim.

When you see the above things,
it will tell you which tune the time sings.

That is how you know it is not a democracy,
and is instead a supine kakistocracy.”
― Shon Mehta