Political Sayings

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The Republic of Turkey cannot be a country of sheikhs, dervishes, and disciples. The truest, most real order is the order of civilisation.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

United States will come to talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

It is well known that the Black race is the most oppressed and most exploited of the human family.

Democracy is for the weak—I bring discipline.

But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.

Democracy is not a bottle of Coca-Cola which you can import. Democracy should develop according to that particular country.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

It's a pity that scientific recognition often comes with so much struggle and politics.

I'm not going to be politically correct.

The scientific community is usually quite conservative.

Democracy will not come Today, this year, nor ever Through compromise and fear.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

The true conservative is the man who has a decent regard for the past, but who recognizes that we must move forward.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.