Famous Quotes

"The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left."

Christopher Lasch on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Christopher Lasch

• "Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."

• "Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."

• "We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change."

• "In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs."

• "The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time."