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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics.
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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REVOLUTION: In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
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That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
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We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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...today everything is commercialized--politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services....Everything has its price.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
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A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
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A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism, -
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
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After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
Source: As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis -
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
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