Famous Quotes

"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore."

Stendhal 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 Stendhal

• "This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."

• "The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."

• "The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."

• "Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."

• "Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one."