Quotes with politics

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Richard Nixon The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • B. W. Powe The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
    Towards A Canada of Light A Prayer For Canada, p. 13
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Barry Marshall The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • C. L. R. James The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.
    The Black Jacobins pp. 283.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Baltasar Garzon The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Carl Sagan The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Beau Willimon The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Alan Clark There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
    Alan Clark
    British politician, author and diarist (0 - 1999)
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  • Belle Boyd There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Cate Blanchett There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Junius There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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