Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

Politics is not an exact science.

Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

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

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Government exists to protect the interests of the powerful from the will of the people.

The state is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill—little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

In the larger life of society, the people are made to submit to the orders of those who were originally meant to serve them—the government and its agents.

Government is not an exact science.

When the people's voice cannot be heard, that's when we make mistakes.

I never wanted the government to feel my pain. I wanted it to feel my boot in its butt.

Politics is the science of the vital interests of States in the highest sphere.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

We" are not the government; the government is not "us." The government does not in any accurate sense "represent" the majority of the people

I believe there's something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government

When the people are sheep, the government is always a wolf.