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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or read more
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Party honesty is party expediency.
Party honesty is party expediency.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have read more
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
