Famous Quotes

"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."

Mary McCarthy 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 Mary McCarthy

• "In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality."

• "People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children."

• "In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality."

• "Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."

• "You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex."