Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1785.
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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
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Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
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Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
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Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
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