politicians

It is so true, that the Socialists look upon mankind as a subject for social experiments, that if, by chance, they are not quite certain of the success of these experiments, they will request a portion of mankind, as a subject to experiment upon. It is well known how popular the ideaof trying all systems is, and one of their chiefs has been known seriously to demand of the Constituent Assembly a parish, with all its inhabitants, upon which to make his experiments. It is thus that an inventor will make a small machine before he makes one of the regular size. Thus the chemist sacrifices some substances, the agriculturist some seed and corner of his field, to make trial of an idea. But think of the difference between the gardener and his trees, between the inventor and his machine, between the chemist and his substances, between the agriculturist and his seed! The Socialist thinks, in all sincerity, that there is the same difference between himself and mankind. No wonder the politicians of the nineteenth century look upon society as an artifical production of the legislator's genius. This idea, the result of a classical education, has taken possession of all the thinkers and great writers of our country. To all these persons, the relations between mankind and the legislator appear to be the same as those that exist between the clay and the potter.

The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged concentration upon it, while the politician emphasizes the impersonal aspect of life by his attempts to fit men into groups.

A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill

A Dirty Clown Is a Ridiculously Clean when standing amongst Politicians.

Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it's a losing coin flip.

Politicians look for interests not people

Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics

We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life

In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines

Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything

Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics

Politics preys on people's naivety

...we have seen that the priests regard the state as an enemy to be exploited, it is only natural that our politicians do likewise. Thus, although patriotism is held in greater esteem in this country than in any other country in the world, there is no other country in the world where patriotism is less in evidence among politicians and among the general mass of the community. For patriotism and the state are so closely allied that love of one is necessarily love of the other. And if any man considers the state an enemy and an institution to be exploited, it follows naturally that he is no patriot. Thus the amazed tourist will see that it is very fashionable for Irish politicians who are not in the government to denounce the government and then when they get into the government it is equally fashionable for them to use the powers of government for the purpose of robbing the country.

People tell me that I should become a politician but I say no I want to do something good for the nation.

Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.

It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past.

I make love like a snake disguised as an elephant and a donkey. But I mustn__ talk about sexual congress and Congress simultaneously._

The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.