Adrian Grenier Quotes

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

The people are difficult to govern: It is because those in authority are too fond of action [change].

The truth can be hard to take, but we have an obligation to look and see what's going on, and, if we don't like it, a chance to stop going along with it. This important film provides precisely that insight and that opportunity.

Politics is how you think about life itself.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

I've got three little kids at home, and I'm trying to save this country from itself. I'm not here to play political power games, and I've had enough of people playing political power games, and this has just gone on too long.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

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

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

What is government itself but the great reflection of human nature.

Politics is about accountability, it is about leadership, it is about courage.

Government is like an undershirt. If you don't change it frequently, it begins to stink.

New laws are written, and new men are made.