Politics Quotes
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A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
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It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems
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One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.
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If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.
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The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.
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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.
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The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
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In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.
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When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
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I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.
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I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.
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I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.
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In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
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One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.
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Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.
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Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
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The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
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Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
