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Tag Name "Politics" (6103)

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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
Joseph Brodsky
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Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.
Wolfgang Schauble
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Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
Aesop
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Aesop
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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Woodrow Wilson
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
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Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift but it is of little worth in politics.
Woodrow Wilson
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The profession I chose was politics the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.
Woodrow Wilson
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Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
Woodrow Wilson
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
Woodrow Wilson
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I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.
Woodrow Wilson
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Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.
Woodrow Wilson
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In war the first casualty is the truth.
Aeschylus
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Politics is a war of causes a joust of principles.
Woodrow Wilson
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Honore de Balzac
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A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it
Amber Tamblyn
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One of the things we've lost as blacks in the United States is imagining different ways the world could be organized, how this country could be organized, how politics could be organized.
Michael C Dawson
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As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
Adrienne Rich
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And I know your next move, I watch you so much, 'There's been no proven link between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda!' Come on. They both think we're Satan. Isn't that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial?
Dennis Miller
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
Adrienne Rich
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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson
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