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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor t...

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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are no...

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[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the...

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Politics is not an exact science.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant,...

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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

What do you mean by sound government?'Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from ...

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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiv...

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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and ...

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Space has always been confusing to politics.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop...

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The American political system is like fast food--mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of thi...

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I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about ...

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P. J. O'RourkeHolidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks

Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious.

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P. J. O'RourkeHow the Hell Did This Happen?: The US Election of 2016

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and s...

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P. J. O'RourkeParliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove t...

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P. J. O'RourkeParliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove t...

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P. J. O'RourkeParliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

In a democracy, of course, you always get a choice:Do you want to be governed by the red or by the b...

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Pat CondellFreedom Is My Religion

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument...

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Politics is show business for ugly people.

You know what politique is? It is the French word for a lie. Kdoub! Politique! When you hear the Fre...

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Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

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Paul BowlesThe Spider's House

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

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Paul HawkenBlessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and...

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These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California t...

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The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole...

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In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elec...

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We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many...

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We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many...

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We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many...

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We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many...

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In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-asse...

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I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly...

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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in...

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If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it i...

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All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion ...

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One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to re...

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Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualifi...

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But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, ...

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We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life...

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Peggy NoonanPatriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the l...

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Peggy NoonanPatriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on s...

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Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, a...

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The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double t...

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Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating pro...

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Peter J. CarrollLiber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.

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Peter J. CarrollPsybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are gett...

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One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

But our land is still troubled by men who have to hate. They twist away our freedom, and they twist ...

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Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affa...

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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in...

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a ...

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by you...

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourse...

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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear f...

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...[T]he right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, just as you ex...

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...in the running of cities, virtually nothing is done by anyone that is conducive to political heal...

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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become ...

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Pope Benedict XVIGod Is Love: Encyclical Letter of Pope Benedict XVI

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not...

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I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but ha...

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They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privi...

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Primo LeviIf This Is a Man / The Truce

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something el...

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Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite o...

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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this ap...

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Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you wh...

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Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I a...

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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation...

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid...

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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the fi...

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Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more mino...

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He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden countr...

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Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type...

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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to de...

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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious ...

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Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow t...

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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follow...

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Reinhold NiebuhrMoral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics