1920s Politics Quotes

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. ~ William Kennedy

Nothing was as it seemed in Leo Koretz's make-believe world of mysterious syndicates and Panamanian oil fields. Accounts written long after his death added fresh layers of myth and distortion, but I was determined to learn the truth about a larger-than-life figure who rarely, if ever, told the truth. The real story of the man who pioneered and mastered the Ponzi scheme, is so gripping – and, at times, so incredible – that it needs no embellishment. And it's a story woven into the fabric of the corrupt politics and gang warfare that plagued Chicago in the 1920s. ~ Dean Jobb

Son, it's easy tae be guid oan a fu' belly. It's when a man's goat two bites an' wan o' them he'll share, ye ken whit he's made o'. Listen. In ony country in the world, who are the only folk that ken whit it's like tae leeve in that country? The folk at the boattom. The rest can a' kid themselves oan. They can afford to hiv fancy ideas. We canny, son. We loass the wan idea o' who we are, we're deid. We're wan anither. Tae survive, we'll respect wan anither. When the time comes, we'll a' move forward thegither, or nut at all. ~ William McIlvanney

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics ... ~ Anais Nin

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. ~ Hillary Clinton

As I've said before, "the Mod generation", contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady gestation from about 1917 or so. Now, Mod certainly came of age, fully sure of itself by 1958, completely misunderstood by 1963, and in a perpetual cycle of reinvention and rediscovery of itself by 1967 and 1975, respectively, but it was born in the 1920s, and I will maintain this. I don't care who disagrees with me, and there are dozens of reasons that I do so - from the Art Deco aesthetic, to flapper fashions (complete with bobbed hair), to androgyny and subtle effeminacy, to jazz. ~ Ruadhan J. McElroy

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness. ~ Jonathan Haidt

The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the onset of economic recession in the late 1920s ... The Nazis owed their spectacular to a combination of two discrete sets of factors: first, their distinctive organisation and strategy; and secondly, the wider socio-economic conditions which created climates of opinion and sets of grievances on which the Nazis could prey. ~ Mary Fulbrook

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics. ~ Douglas Hurd

When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly. ~ Nate Lowman

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things. ~ Henry Adams

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved. ~ Marianne Williamson

It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen. ~ Warren Eyster

Anyone who thinks politics equals power has no understanding of either politics or power. The games of politics are sponsored by the powerful, and are designed to deliver a single end - to secure their power. ~ Graeme Rodaughan

Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means, ~ Alasdair MacIntyre

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out. ~ Natalie Jeremijenko

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics. ~ Benazir Bhutto

Politics should be for people, politics shouldn't be for politicians. ~ Amit Kalantri

Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things to do, not politics. Only the third rate, the most unintelligent part of a country, moves into politics. ~ Osho

Golf shows your character. ~ Victoria Brown

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer. ~ Paul McCartney

But we need to search for and find, what we need to own and perfect into a magnificent, shining thing, is a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governments, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of forcing accountability. The politics of slowing things down. In the present circumstances, I'd say the only thing worth globalizing is dissent. ~ Megan McKenna

She sighs, breathing smoke through her lips. "Might as well dance. ~ Genevieve Valentine

Finality is not the language of politics. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. ~ Kate Millett

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [office]," he wrote to a friend, "a rottenness begins in his conduct. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York. ~ Reid Scott

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out. ~ Will Rogers

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics. ~ Angus King

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics. ~ Edna Ferber

My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European and world affairs, is Angela Merkel. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best ~ Otto Von Bismarck

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics. ~ Norm MacDonald

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life. ~ Bill Callahan

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form. ~ Al Gore

Politics preys on people's naivety ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements. ~ Enrique Pena Nieto

The politics that enter the university are those that come from history, a retro politics, emptied of substance and legalized in their superficial exercise. ~ Jean Baudrillard

I don't think about politics," Rabbit says. "That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics. ~ John Updike

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom. ~ Juan Cole

Perhaps this is one of the reasons Toby dislikes politics-that some of the people who car most about politics seem to have the least compassion for ordinary human beings. ~ Michelle Cooper

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics. ~ Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief. ~ David Plouffe

Politics, it's all corrupt! ~ Steven Magee

Where there is politics, there can never be peace, and where there is peace, there's no need for politics. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics. ~ Manny Pacquiao

There is no gambling like politics. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. ~ Karl Rove

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. ~ Cal Thomas

I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics. ~ Shilpa Shetty

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall. ~ Luc Tuymans

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. ~ Robert Redford

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine. ~ Paul Wellstone

Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time. ~ Neal Shusterman

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics. ~ Wolfgang Schauble

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone. ~ Richard Stallman

I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India. ~ Shekhar Kapur

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics. ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. ~ John Gunther

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics. ~ Will Rogers

Lily shook her head. "The 1930s were such a disappointment. Every year, they insisted on not being the 1920s. ~ Cassandra Clare

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers. ~ Kenneth Koch

In politics, being deceived is no excuse. ~ Leszek Kołakowski

Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. ~ Paul Wellstone

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics. ~ Evander Holyfield

I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry. ~ Iman

Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when harmless children suffer because of politics or detrimental policies. ~ Al Sharpton

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. ~ Carl Andre

I hate that just because I live here I'm supposed to live politics. And there's nothing you can do. If you don't live politics, politics will leave you. ~ Marlon James

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more. ~ Robert Carlyle

He says that politics is a waste of time. Politics are? Politics is? Anyway, a waste of time. He says you should focus on your own sexual gratification. ~ David Burr Gerrard

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ~ Lester B. Pearson

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

If you 'don't do politics' , trust me - politics will do you. ~ Christina Engela

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded. ~ Ambrose Bierce

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it. ~ Pat Oliphant

Office Politics are worse than state politics.
Try not to become a Wedge of it. ~ Mohith Agadi

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys. ~ Thomas Frank

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion. ~ Bill O'Reilly

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

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money. ~ Frank Dobson

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. ~ Elliott Abrams

Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffie
with knobs on! ~ P.G. Wodehouse

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics. ~ Ayn Rand

There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person. ~ Elizabeth McGovern

If there's something we want, politics shouldn't be our first resort. Politics is all taking, no making. Whatever politics provides for us will be obtained from other people. Those people won't love us. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off. ~ George Osborne

Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful. ~ Kevin Spacey

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point. ~ George Will

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice. ~ W. H. Auden

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot. ~ Chris Hayes

In politics the middle way is none at all. ~ John Adams

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is. ~ Johann Lamont

First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics. ~ Karen DeCrow