Politics, a word with such weight. Many people would avoid talking about it, while others are very passionate about it. Regardless of how we feel about it, we cannot deny that our society is being shaped by many things and politics is one of the things that have the biggest influence on it.
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When we hear politicians, we think of corruption, war, and inequality. We think of selfish leaders, incompetent people, and injustice. This collection of politics quotes are here to either inspire you, provoke you, or simply show the words of leaders, influential people, and average citizen that kept people going to fight for a change.
COMPILATION OF POLITICS QUOTES
Enjoy this collection of quotes about politics, war, inequality, justice, and more from leaders, politicians, activists, public figures, and even ordinary citizens who inspired the people throughout history. check out these political quotes – from books to wall arts.
“That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”
“Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.”
“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”
“A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.”
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
“My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.”
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall, but I expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Wherever you stand on politics, I hope you found this compilation of politics quotes and saying useful.