This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
In politics nothing is contemptible.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Nine times out of ten a man’s politics can be predicted from the way in which he makes his living.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Little | Magnanimity | Politics | Wisdom |
Frédéric Bastiat, fully Claude Frédéric Bastiat
A science of economics must be developed before a science of politics can be logically formulated. Essentially, economics is the science of determining whether the interests of human beings are harmonious or antagonistic. This must be known before a science of politics can be formulated to determine the proper functions of government.
Economics | Government | Politics | Science |
George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair
In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
Politics |
Pierre Trudeau, aka Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fully Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
Politics |
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Politics |
Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.
Fortune | Government | Man | Politics | Principles | World |
Responsibility educates, and politics is but another name for God’s way of teaching the masses ethics, under the responsibility of great present interests.
Ethics | God | Politics | Present | Responsibility |
Conservatism is the politics of reality.
Conservatism | Politics | Reality |
Charles de Gaulle, fully Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Politics |
Edward Bernays, fully Edward Louis Bernays
In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons [...] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.
Eugene McCarthy, fully Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Enough | Politics | Think | Understand |