Political Passivity Quotes

I'm an unambitious politician.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

He [Bismarck] left a nation totally without political education … totally beret of political will. It had grown accustomed to submit patiently and fatalistically to whatever was decided for it in the name of monarchical government.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

The possibility that I will ever be drawn into political activity is so remote as to be negligible.

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.