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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie read more
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying read more
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best read more
I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best method.
[Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio,
nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]
In politics nothing is contemptible.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human
immaturity.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human
immaturity.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but read more
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
There are no true friends in politics.
There are no true friends in politics.