Martin L. Gross Quotes

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

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Politics is how you think about life itself.

In politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

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

I have never regarded politics as an arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.

All politics is a combination of rhetoric and reality.

The political philosophy of one generation becomes the political anathema of another.

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

There is nothing that is not political.

In politics, good gets better; bad gets worse.

Vision is not political rhetoric

Individuals do matter and personalities matter in politics. But if issues are sidestepped due to personalities, then that is very dangerous.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Ideology has consequences.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.