Quotes 201 till 220 of 283.
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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
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Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 148 -
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
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That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
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That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.
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That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
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The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.
Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 151 -
The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 273 -
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
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