Politics Quotes – Insights and Reflections on Politics

"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else."

Claude Frédéric Bastiat

"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"

Claude Frédéric Bastiat

"The fight against the far right has increasingly turned into a fight against one’s own people."

Uwe Heinz Steimle

"With all due respect, you can’t heat houses in winter with nuclear energy. And as if that blatant nonsense weren’t enough, she added: They shouldn’t assume we’re any more foolish than the average person."

Claudia Roth

"Even once we have a vaccine and know more about possible immunity, one thing remains clear for us: there must not be a two-tier society of infected and non-infected people. There can be no mandatory vaccination — and there will be none."

Bärbel Bas

"A life that is unwilling to take risks inevitably begins to resemble death."

Robert Pfaller

"One might still justify the submission of an entire people to a small number of rulers if those in power were the best among us—but that is not the case, never has been, and never can be. All too often it is the worst, the most insignificant, the most cruel, the most immoral—and especially the most deceitful—who rule. And the fact that this is so is no accident."

Leo Tolstoi (Leo Tolstoy)

"It is hardly necessary to point out that the inability of the masses to judge correctly deprives them of any capacity for critical thought—that is, the ability to distinguish truth from error and to form a sound judgment. The judgments adopted by the masses are merely imposed on them and are never the result of careful examination. Many individuals, in this respect, do not rise above the level of the crowd. The ease with which certain opinions become widely accepted is due above all to the inability of most people to form an opinion of their own on the basis of personal reasoning."

Gustave Le Bon

"It is the opposition’s job to strip the government of its makeup while the show is still going on."

Jacques Chirac

"Everyone is wise—some beforehand, others afterward."

Voltaire

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root"

Henry David Thoreau

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."

Voltaire

"Never let a good crisis go to waste."

Winston Churchill

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

Martin Luther King

"For almost two years now, an alleged pandemic has had us firmly in its grip. Day after day, the media and politicians bombard us with narratives and measures. It’s time we take a stand against it. This may be our last chance. If we go along with it and they achieve their goal, life here will become very uncomfortable for us and for future generations. I hope that resistance and clarity continue to grow—and that we force an end to it."

Tobias Levels

"Fear of the virus—fear of getting sick, fear of dying—is the most effective distraction one can politically set in motion: to intimidate people and focus them on that fear so completely that, in the end, you can basically do whatever you want with us."

Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz

"I never thought I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the sniveling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone."

John Joseph Lydon

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power."

Benito Mussolini