Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

I have the disease called politics.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

You are afraid of the one, I, of the few.... You are apprehensive of monarchy, I, of aristocracy.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Policy and politics are always mixed up.

Suspect power more than vice.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will be ever liable to abuse.

No man ever ruled other men for their own good.

Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.

In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition.

The forces that precipitate the vicious cycle of conflict on this planet do not pledge allegiance to either the left or the right or the center. They take advantage of everyone.

Let's face it, politics in this country is coin-operated. Does that really equate to a real democracy? It's very difficult to say.

Politics is awful.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.