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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten. – David MametRate it:
A visionary psychologist examines and analyses, in all dimensions of the subject's nature, with the knowledge and ability of spirituality, philosophy, and politics, apart from its professional study. Otherwise, it represents only as a robot that circulates the content as its programme. – Ehsan SehgalRate it:
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs. – Joan BaezRate it:
For in politics as in religion it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. – Alexander HamiltonRate it:
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. – George OrwellRate it:
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life. – William BlakeRate it:
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. – Don HenleyRate it:
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. – Harold MacMillanRate it:
I think anybody in this process needs to demonstrate how they will represent people of any faith, people of no faith, but I also think the time has come to reclaim faith as a theme, the idea that the only way a religious person could enter politics is through the prism of the religious right, I just dont think that makes sense. – Pete ButtigiegRate it:
If you hate gossip or people talking about you behind your back, then politics isn't for you. – Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:
In any age, the so-called progressives treat politics as their religion. Their holy mission is to use the coercive power of the State to remake man and society in their own image, according to an abstract ideal of perfection. Whatever means they use are therefore justified because, by definition, they are a virtuous people pursing a deific end. They are willing to use any means necessary to gain momentary advantage in achieving their end, regardless of collateral consequences and the systemic implications. They never ask whether the actions they take could be justified as a general rule of conduct, equally applicable to all sides. – William BarrRate it:
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. – Catherine The GreatRate it:
In politics the middle way is none at all. – John AdamsRate it:
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap. – Napoleon BonaparteRate it:
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. – Mary McCarthyRate it:
In politics, our friends, those are our worst friends. (En politique, nos amis, - Ce sont là nos pires amis.) – Charles de LEUSSERate it:
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. – Mark TwainRate it:
In the business schools, students are taught topics like management strategy or tactics and ethics. But in the business world, an employee who licks the boot of top-level management playing politics readily gets the raise. – ProbaerbRate it:
It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man. – Herbert Clark HooverRate it:
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. – Isaac AsimovRate it:
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. – John Kenneth GalbraithRate it:
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. – Hunter S. ThompsonRate it:
People conjugate to the present; politics to other tenses. (Peuple conjugue au présent; - Politique aux autres temps.) – Charles de LEUSSERate it:
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows--marriage does. – Groucho MarxRate it:

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

– David MametRate it:

A visionary psychologist examines and analyses, in all dimensions of the subject's nature, with the knowledge and ability of spirituality, philosophy, and politics, apart from its professional study. Otherwise, it represents only as a robot that circulates the content as its programme.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

– Joan BaezRate it:

For in politics as in religion it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

– Alexander HamiltonRate it:

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

– George OrwellRate it:

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

– William BlakeRate it: