Quotes About Evil Politics

#1. Politics is not evil; politics is the human race's most magnificent achievement.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Ignoring the evils of our history will only cause them to reoccur.

R.M. Donaldson

#3. We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics ...

Anais Nin

#4. Evil is our trade, but not so deep a darkness as politics.

Christopher Moore

#5. There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

John Adams

#6. Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Hannah Arendt

#7. I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

Terry Pratchett

#8. The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

Angelo Codevilla

#9. I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War.

Joe Lieberman

#10. In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.

Napoleon III

#11. Politics remained archaically unchanged in 1999. America was economically strong but morally complacent. It was a year of evil in many ways - another great year for cartooning.

Michael Ramirez

#12. Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence ... politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

Bernard Crick

#14. Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments or anything else, can justly take from the individual.

Auberon Herbert

#15. As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.
Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

Zarina Bibi

#16. Everybody would be a dictator if he could.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#17. One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.

Una McCormack

#18. I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks.
Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and hunters, the real evil was lack of reading time. If they all read more they might freak out less. And if I was going to live forever I was going to have to start a reading list.

Alyxandra Harvey

#19. We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.

Anne Bishop

#20. Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians.

Sonia Rumzi

#21. Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

Lincoln Steffens

#22. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk. There

James S.A. Corey

#23. It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

Max Weber

#24. Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Alexis De Tocqueville

#25. Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Frank Zappa

#26. As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#27. For the Christian man to reason that God does not want him involved in politics because there are too many evil men in government is as insensitive as for a Christian doctor to turn his back on an epidemic because there are too many germs there.

Mark Hatfield

#28. We are not against the evil when our enemies are.

M.F. Moonzajer

#29. Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

Geoffrey Hinton

#30. I'm not a political Christian; for the most part I allow people even their vain, earthly rights. And I certainly don't see anti-Christians as bad or evil (as if they actually have the power to pose any kind of threat against God Almighty), but rather complete idiots I was commanded to love.

Criss Jami

#31. [Politics] is the seedbed of social enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual. Name anything bad in man, and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with abundance.

Maxim Gorky

#32. In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#33. She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.

James S.A. Corey

#34. It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

James Carafano

#35. The premise that America's power and influence was rooted in its wealth was wrong to begin with. To the contrary, our strength comes from America's magical stuff. It is something intangible, something invulnerable, something no measure of evil, no amount of violence or bloodshed can destroy.

Rick Elkin

#36. The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

Bill Maher

#37. True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my book K.H. trilogy

Angelica Hopes

#38. Thane had never been one of the idealists; he'd accepted Wedge Antilles's invitation not because he believed the Rebellion was pure good but because he'd learned the Empire was pure evil.

Claudia Gray

#39. The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.

Tiffany Madison

#40. Barack Obama is an even worse president than George W. Bush, because an evil bastard who knows what he's doing is far more dangerous than an evil bastard who doesn't have a clue.

Michel Templet

#41. All things merge in one another - good into evil, generosity into justice, religion into politics ...

Thomas Hardy

#42. It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.

Leonard Woolf

#43. America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding.

Rudy Rucker

#44. The prevailing quality of life in America
by any accepted methods of measuring
was unarguably freer and more politically open under Nixon than it is today in this evil year of Our Lord 2002.

Hunter S. Thompson

#45. Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

Jonathan Haidt

#46. The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Edmund Burke

#47. The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#48. There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and ... evil.

Bob Dole

#49. Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.

Dave Champion

#50. I do not know that the Chinese system is any worse; there is a limit to the evil one despot alone can do, and if he is truly vicious he can be overthrown; a hundred corrupt members of Parliament may together do as much injustice or more, and be the less easy to uproot.

Naomi Novik

#51. The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Bertrand Russell

#52. Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Edward Abbey

#53. Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme" - i.e., consistent).

Ayn Rand

#54. I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

Erica Jong

#55. Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

Sonia Rumzi

#56. politics?" "A necessary evil that on rare occasions works without corruption, abuse, and waste.

J.D. Robb

#57. To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

Charles Krauthammer

#58. The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#59. Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a person's heart, something for which politics has no cure.

Philip Yancey

#60. We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them.

M.F. Moonzajer

#61. I say one evil empire down ... one to go.

Michael Moore

#62. We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

Christopher Hitchens

#63. Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.

Judith Flanders

#64. For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.

Sean S. Kamali

#65. Nowhere in this universe does evil exist except in the mind of mankind. only man can take an idea or symbol which is so simple and innocent, and then twist it and corrupt it until it is something to hate or kill one another over.

Andrew James Pritchard

#66. To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

William Penn

#67. In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#68. Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#69. Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

Arthur Miller

#70. The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

Hayao Miyazaki

#71. The politics of the greater evil was a common creation at a time of chaos. -

Timothy Snyder

#72. I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Margaret Thatcher

#73. I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...

Rebecca Solnit

#74. Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.

David Hume

#75. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

Stephen King

#76. An evil man without vices was the most dangerous of all.

Anand Neelakantan