Politics Quotes
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Publicity is the engine of politics
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.
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in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.
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No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again...
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In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew.
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The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
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A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
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For Spinoza, an ethics and a politics follow directly from and are immanent in metaphysics; the better one understands the universe in its complexity, in the connections that link each thing to every other, the more adequate is one’s ethical relation in and to it. An ethics does not spring directly from our understanding of the world. Rather, it comes from our affective bonds to and connections with other things in the world, relations that enable us to enhance or diminish forms of life.
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I cannot do politics under someone else's control.
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When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.
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Politics should come from human stories.
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We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.
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Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
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I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.
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The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.
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Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.
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Politics is applied biology.
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Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
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O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
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In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.
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In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.
