Politics Quotes
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Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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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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Ever since the field of biology emerged in the United States and Europe at the start of the nineteenth century, it has been bound up in debates over sexual, racial, and national politics. And as our social viewpoints have shifted, so has the science of the body.
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Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.
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Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.
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I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
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I had previously announced that I am above trends and leanings, above party politics and political parties. This is because I strive for the people as a whole to serve them.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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It's shocking. There is no fundamental reason. Prices are talked up by politics, stock levels and security concerns.
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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
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I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.
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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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To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.
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My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
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For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.
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We're about music. We're not about politics.
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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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If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.
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Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
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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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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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It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.
