Political Sayings

The Jewish people have too much power in our government and in our media.

We are not Communists, Catholics, or Socialists. We are African nationalists.

Politics is the strong and slow boring of hard boards.

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

The Mexicans are a mongrel race incapable of self-government.

Every woman adores a Fascist, the boot in the face.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I am a Democrat, but I think the Democrats have been pretty stupid.

I'm not a politician. I'm a musician.

I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either.

I don't like to be pushed around by anybody—including the government.

It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be s…

Republics, Kingdoms, Soviets, Corporate States, Parliaments, are trash. [...] These men, whether six or six thousand, are the core of Ireland, are Ireland itself.

What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks …

We are scientists. We are not politicians. We are not moralists. We are scientists. We have done our job. It is up to others to decide what to do with it.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I am a Christian, and of course what I write is, of course, Christian. I mean, I don't mean that I've tried to make it Christian at all, it's not Christian in that sense. It's not propaganda. It is a story, and the Christian element is in it of cours…

It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of black against white, or as a purely American problem. Instead, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the…