Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [761-769] of 769 Politics quotesPolitics QuotesPolitics Previous 20 quotes America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. ... Something’s eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many. ... Maybe it’ll be one more round of “reasonable gun control” or one more episode of burning children to death to save them from “child abuse.” Whatever, something will snap.~ Claire Wolfe America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent.~ Claire Wolfe It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.~ Thomas Wolfe A sure sign of a genius is that all of the dunces are in a confederacy against him.~ Frank Lloyd Wright Police State: A state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the people, especially by means of a secret police force.~ Yahooligans Reference The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.~ W.B. Yeats The power of the Right is principle, and the principle of the Left is power. Understand this and you will understand the basis of modern politics.~ J.T. Young It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? .... The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil.~ Dr. Ravi Zacharias I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either.~ Edward Zehr Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print