Politics(235)

"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
R. Buckminster Fuller

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
John Kenneth Galbraith

"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
John Kenneth Galbraith

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
Mohandas Gandhi

"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."
John W. Gardner

"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
John W. Gardner

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
Charles de Gaulle

"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."
Charles de Gaulle

"What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?"
Kahlil Gibran

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
Kahlil Gibran