Politics Quotes
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles
Mahatma Gandhi
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell
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Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
Henri Queuille
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Hopefully, this statement means we`re finally nearing the end of this very long process to take guns and criminality out of politics in Northern Ireland once and for all.
Edward Kennedy
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Earnest Benn
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Bill Lovejoy
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Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and the
Ben Manski
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I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
Belva Lockwood
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Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law
Auberon Waugh
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We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
Martin L. Gross
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell
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The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
John G. Diefenbaker
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Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.
Ambrose Bierce
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one`s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle
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Politics doesn`t make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Groucho Marx
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Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.
Saddam Hussein
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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung
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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung
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I deplore this kind of politics. I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded. Many of his crew have testified to his courage under fire. I think John Kerry served honorably in Viet...
John McCain
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This may be the day when finally after all the false dawns and dashed hope, peace replaced war, politics replaces terror on the island of Ireland. ... This is a step of unparalleled magnitude in the recent history of Northern Ireland.
Tony Blair
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In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
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