Mark Twain Politics Quotes

#1. In truth I care little about any party's politics-the man behind it is the important thing.

Mark Twain

#2. In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

#3. Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Mark Twain

#4. Demagogue
a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

Mark Twain

#5. There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

Mark Twain

#6. An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.
- A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain

#7. Every woman should feel like a princess on her wedding day; it's practically a law.

Anna Bell

#8. Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.

Indra Nooyi

#9. Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

Mark Twain

#10. I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.

Bill Hicks

#11. Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind - politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

Mark Twain

#12. In light matters
matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things
he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.

Mark Twain

#13. Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Mark Twain

#14. Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

Jonathan Demme

#15. Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Mark Twain

#16. Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

Mark Twain

#17. The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Mark Twain

#18. No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

Mark Twain

#19. Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#20. Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Mark Twain

#21. All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

Mark Twain

#22. The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.

Mark Twain

#23. Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

Joyce Cary

#24. One of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

Mark Twain

#25. I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

Mark Twain

#26. Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

#27. If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Mark Twain

#28. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#29. I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

Mark Twain

#30. Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#31. When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible ...

Mark Twain

#32. I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing -- if it has indeed ever existed.

Mark Twain

#33. The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

Mark Twain

#34. It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain