If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

The love I see in this world is hate and prejudices.

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.

You don't get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners.

The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of progress.

Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a president!

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

What some politicians really mean when they saythis country: me, my party, my ethnic groupinternational justice is biased: they want to arrest meterrorists: oppositionillegal immigrants: refugeeselections: remaining in powerpeace: eliminating the oppositioninternational community: the rich countriesthe people: sympathisers of my party

Society is full of possibilities, is this possible to make all to think like children then there will be no politics.

When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.

The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use.

Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

Did you know that the United States is ranked fiftieth in the world in life expectancy? And the forty-nine loser countries where they live longer than us...they live shackled to the tyranny of nonprofit health care. Here in America, you're not coughing up blood, little Bobby, you're coughing up freedom!

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.

A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead.

The difference between Nazism and Communism is just the size of the leader's moustache.

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.

We have passed some of the dirtiest chapters of mankind. Perhaps we are heading towards further inhuman treatments in many places such as Syria and Palestine.