W. H. Auden Quotes

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

W. H. Auden

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• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

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• I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.

  

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• My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Truth
  • Feeling