Political Sayings

Every man who is not a fool knows that a bad government is a great evil; but that there is no greater evil than a weak government.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

I have been accused of being a Communist, which I am not. I am a libertarian socialist.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin; the Communists are a disease of the heart.

The less government we have, the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I am surprised to find how soon I have forgotten them.

The state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

I am not afraid that they will find bad governments, but that they will find governments that are not interested in the well-being of the people.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.

For the oppressed, the present is so overwhelming that the future is often unthinkable.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I've never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

I'm a beat, not a beatnik. I'm a generation, not a fad. I'm a movement, not a trend. I'm a revolution, not a rebellion. I'm a.

I'm a sex maniac. I'm a pervert. I'm a homosexual. I'm a drug addict. I'm a communist. I'm a Jew. I'm all those things.

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are more likely to get elected than leaders.

I have no talent for politics, and I despise all politicians.