The current weariness with old-fashioned politics represents not lack of interest in the common good, but near despair at the difficulty of contributing to it - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity, p144
Politics originally meant the administration of the city (polis). Today it means the administration of a country. Soon it will mean the administration of the Earth - Robert Muller
Politics is the great generaliser and literature the great particulariser - Philip Roth
Opposition is poetry, government is prose - Mario Cuomo (paraphrased)
No difficulty in the way of a world government can match the danger of a world without it - Carl Van Doren
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea - Robert Anton Wilson
It is no use waiting for politicians to save us - remember politicians are not leaders they are followers, they follow the electorate. We all have to take a lead ourselves and take action - Neil Croft, Authentic Business, February 2006
In the future the nation state will seem too big for the small things in life and too small for the big things in life - Daniel Bell, http://www.matthewtaylorsblog.com/politics/the-defenestration-of-centra…
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytising zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas - Aldous Huxley