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Tag Name "Politics" (6101)

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire
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If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.
Herbert Blau
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I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.
Andre Naffis-Sahely
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Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
Roland Joffe
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I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.
Martin Schulz
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If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.
Gore Vidal
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When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
W. S. Gilbert
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W. S. Gilbert
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I'm a warrior at heart I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating it's war without guns.
Jesse Ventura
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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
Anais Nin
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For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.
Charles Krauthammer
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
W. Somerset Maugham
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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
Anais Nin
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With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist.
Ayelet Waldman
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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
Twyla Tharp
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All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
August Wilson
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
Wallace Shawn
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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
Wally Schirra
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Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
Amy Lowell
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There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.
Scott Ritter
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Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.
Richard Layard, Baron Layard
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