Quotes about "Politics & Government"

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments. ”

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views. ”

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service. ”

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. ”

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' ”

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. ”

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members. ”

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. ”

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. ”

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. ”