Famous Quotes

"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."

John B. S. Haldane on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

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

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by John B. S. Haldane

• "We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve."

• "I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."

• "If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles."

• "I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."

• "If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles."